MSCI Software Engineer interview experience

After the initial conversation, the interviewer kept drilling into technologies that weren’t on my resume. I tried to answer with solutions based on my real experience, but the responses weren’t accepted or weren’t considered equivalent.

A good example was a question about how to share huge amounts of data with a customer. I explained an approach using a cloud mechanism I was familiar with, but the interviewer either wasn’t familiar with it or pushed me away from it. Instead, they expected a solution built around a different stack they preferred, and that mismatch made the questions feel