Occidental Petroleum Software Engineer interview experience

It started online, and I moved through several stages with small groups of interviewers, where each round had multiple people asking questions in a fairly organized way. The atmosphere stayed friendly, but it wasn’t casual in the sense of being unstructured—interviewers took notes and seemed focused on confirming the same qualifications from different angles.

I was asked a mix of technical and behavioral questions, and the behavioral prompts were still very STAR-oriented, like they were trying to map my experience to specific competencies. What really raised the difficulty was that I also