Motional·Software Engineer

Motional Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Nov 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After initially being contacted by two separate recruiters who said they would set up interviews but never followed through, a third recruiter finally got me scheduled.

The screening itself was straightforward, and then I got a timed programming evaluation over a call with an engineer.

The evaluation felt like a mess, even though the topic wasn’t necessarily hard. The prompt wasn’t written down, and the person asking it struggled to explain the goal clearly. I ended up solving it twice because I missed pieces of what the task actually required. The confusion piled up until there wasn’t much time left, and at that point completing it would have meant restarting everything I’d already done. To make it worse, I wasn’t told I was going down the wrong path until

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