Paychex·Software Engineer

Paychex Software Engineer interview experience

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Rochester, NYPosted Dec 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online first, and the next day I got an email and a phone call to set up the onsite.

The onsite interview itself was fairly straightforward: we started by going over what I’d done before, then they asked me to walk through steps to solve a real question.

It wasn’t framed like a casual conversation the whole way through. The “show steps” part stood out to me because they weren’t just looking for the final answer—they wanted to hear my reasoning as I moved from one step to the next. That structure made the interview feel more like a guided walkthrough than a single jump to a solution.

By the end, I didn’t get the sense they were trying to stump me; it felt more about whether

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