Motive·Software Engineer

Motive Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

IndiaPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview dragged on for over a month and ended with a pretty cold rejection email with no explanation.

I ended up going through about seven rounds, and the pace felt relentless—each step seemed to eliminate me at the end, yet none of it ever came with real feedback.

Most of the rounds were technical, and I felt like I performed strongly in almost all of them. The one thing that threw me off was a machine-coding round where I had to redo it because the API they provided was broken. Even with that snag, I still managed to get through. The last system design round felt only average to me, but overall I’d expected better follow-through.

After all that effort, the process still ended without any

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