Natera·Software Engineer

Natera Software Engineer interview experience

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Belgrade, Central SerbiaPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started this process thinking it would be strongly Java/Spring oriented, but the job description changed after I applied.

They told me later that the interview loop would include MySQL and more SQL-heavy questioning, along with Spring Boot and other Spring Core topics—yet when I actually got into the interviews, I barely saw any Spring questions and instead got grilled on SQL queries.

The mismatch threw me off because I had invested time learning a framework that wasn’t the focus of what they ended up testing. I expected MySQL in the context of something like Hibernate, but the interview didn’t follow that framing, and the whole thing felt like SQL alone wasn’t a great proxy for what the job would require in

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