Motive·Software Engineer

Motive Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

BengaluruPosted Sep 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Right after the recruiter phone call, I had a hiring-manager interview.

The conversation went really well on my side, and at the end the interviewer seemed satisfied. Despite that, I received a rejection.

When I tried to follow up for feedback, the recruiter wouldn’t respond even after I reached out multiple times. The message I got seemed to center on language/domain fit—apparently they were looking specifically for a backend profile tied to Go, and my background was more Java. I found it a bit frustrating because the recruiter had framed it as not being a dealbreaker, and the later decision made it feel like the evaluation criteria shifted after the fact. The

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