Nokia·Software Engineer

Nokia Software Engineer interview experience

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Sunnyvale, CAPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I first had a phone call with the hiring manager for about 20 minutes.

Then I moved to a technical interview with someone on the team. Interestingly, they didn’t ask coding questions; instead, they confirmed the information on my resume and dug into the technical implementations behind some of my projects.

They also asked me to explain parts of my past internship and then asked technical questions tied to tools listed on my resume—especially Docker and ETL pipelines. Those topics were fairly straightforward for me, and I could feel they were mainly weighting how closely my experience matched what the job required.

I ended up getting an offer, and the

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