OpenText·Software Engineer

OpenText Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

CanadaPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews leaned heavily into difficulty and behavioral focus, and the intensity showed up early.

I started with an HR screening and then went into multiple face-to-face technical rounds that demanded deep expertise. The questions were extremely challenging, and it felt like they expected me to operate at a high level right away.

Even when the coding questions themselves weren’t framed as extremely complex, the overall evaluation was still very demanding. There was a noticeable emphasis on behavioral content, which dominated the interview energy, and the technical portion skewed toward basic LeetCode-style problems rather than exotic topics. The mismatch between what I offered on my

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