MITRE·Software Engineer

MITRE Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Aug 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started in a way that felt fairly standard on paper—HR set things up and I ended up in a virtual interview with technical and behavioral components.

I still remember one technical round where I was given a link to a coding environment that wouldn’t load, so I ended up coding in chat instead. That small technical snag already threw me off, and on top of that one of the interviewers had a very sharp, arrogant tone. The conversation didn’t really feel like a back-and-forth discussion; I mostly talked while being judged.

Later, I also experienced a frustrating mismatch between interview momentum and decision timing. I was told they were preparing an offer, but then the follow-up dragged on for months, with office politics blamed and a long

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