NN26·Software Engineer

N26 Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

ItalienPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an HR-style recruiter call that went smoothly, and shortly after I was asked to complete a Codility assessment.

The exercises felt like typical LeetCode/HackerRank-style algorithm problems—pretty standard and, for me, not especially hard. I spent roughly an hour and a half working through it and submitted.

Afterward, the process ended quickly with a rejection. The reason felt off: I was told a significant part of my solution appeared to be copied from an external source, but they didn’t provide evidence and I wasn’t given any chance to walk through my approach or discuss the code. The email itself came across like a template and only got more detailed after I pushed back. I know companies are cautious

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