Northrop Grumman Software Engineer interview experience

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Sacramento, CAPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied through an employee referral and ended up getting a recruiter call about a week after everything was submitted, which was just to line up the interview.

Less than a week later, I joined a panel made up of the hiring manager and a few peers. Before we even started, they seemed to have already read my resume closely, and the conversation quickly turned into a deep dive on my past work—what I’d done, what skills they were looking for, and how my experience mapped to the role. Most of the questions were behavioral, with the kind of structured stories where they prompted for specifics and outcomes.

What stood out was what didn’t happen: there was no LeetCode-style live coding or hackathon-style grilling. Instead, it felt like a genuine discussion

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