Pacific Gas and Electric·Software Engineer

Pacific Gas and Electric Software Engineer interview experience

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San Francisco, CAPosted Sep 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a more formal, structured interview experience where the questions were basically predetermined.

The session I had was timed and required a consistent set of STAR-focused prompts. They were looking for answers that followed the same arc every time: issue or setting, the task you dealt with, the action you took, and the result. The interviewer also had to frame their questions in that STAR style, and it felt like the process was designed to standardize scoring.

In my actual interview, I talked through my background first, including how I related to the gas industry and how I handled real scenarios. Then it shifted into specific behavioral situations: disagreement with a coworker and how

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