OpenText·Software Engineer

OpenText Software Engineer interview experience

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Waterloo, ONPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first round was an HR check, which was pretty straightforward—mostly confirming my background and getting the conversation started.

After that, there was a director-style conversation where I talked through my experience directly. The final stage was a panel interview with the technical team, and it felt more intense because it involved both live coding and a timed Q&A.

For live coding, I had to work through problems like finding a value from a binary search tree and then a more array-focused task where I was given an input array and had to output a sorted result in-place without using a new array. Along with that, there was a 15-minute technical discussion where they probed my understanding and how I communicated

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