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MDA Software Engineer interview experience

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Farnborough, Hampshire, South East England, EnglandPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through MDA’s process for a Senior Software Validation Engineer role, and it felt disappointing overall.

It began with a short call where I was asked basic experience questions, including a very elementary Python prompt about differences between lists and tuples. I answered it confidently, but I didn’t get a real discussion of what the role would demand technically or how they saw me fitting in.

The on-site interview then happened in their Farnborough office, and the technical portion was basically an unstructured sheet of very fundamental programming topics. There were questions on inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation, plus what init() means, differences between

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