Optum·Software Engineer

Optum Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

Bangalore RuralPosted Apr 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into my on-campus interview expecting technical questions, but it immediately felt off.

The interviewer seemed unprepared on core topics—data structures and algorithms didn’t appear to be something he could cover confidently, and he even missed basics from computer science fundamentals. The interview ran about forty minutes.

What surprised me most was that he didn’t ask anything technical at all. Instead, he asked random personal questions like where I lived and about the college curriculum, and then tried to judge leadership with repetitive, outdated prompts that didn’t really connect to my background. I felt like my projects and the technical side I expected to be evaluated

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