PPACCAR·Software Engineer

PACCAR Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Bellevue, WAPosted Oct 2011 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started with a phone call that was mostly HR focused, and then I moved into an in-person stage that leaned heavily the same way.

After that, I met with several managers who talked a lot about the organization and the org chart. They were more interested in how I felt about the culture of their group than in pushing hard on technical depth.

The group portion was more of a conversation than a heavy technical gauntlet, though a few technical prompts did show up—things like reversing a string with a method, and explaining the difference between pass-by-reference and pass-by-value. The thing that really stood out to me was the panel size: it included five developers. Walking into that room felt intimidating at first, but

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