OpenText·Software Engineer

OpenText Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted May 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had two rounds, and the experience quickly turned frustrating.

In the first technical round, I was asked C++-leaning questions—C++ specific concepts, including something tied to linked lists and threading. Since that matched my background as a C++ developer, I felt okay going into it.

The second round was where everything fell apart. The interviewer wasn’t from the C++ side and asked about the producer-consumer problem. I tried to explain my approach using threads, but the interviewer wasn’t able to follow along with the C++ code, and they also seemed unfamiliar with basic iterator behavior around queue and STL APIs. The mismatch made the discussion

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