Pearson·Software Engineer

Pearson Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Washington, DCPosted Nov 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process was anchored by an assignment step that took a lot of time.

One interview required an assessment that lasted four days of working, and after I submitted it, they didn’t even bother to send a rejection—just silence.

In another similar experience, the company treated the process as urgent and time sensitive. I received a document with testing questions and had to create multiple recorded videos, then upload them to a public platform so they could track views. After the videos, an interview request came through quickly and emphasized the urgency again, and the meeting itself felt strange and misaligned—starting with generic questions that didn’t really

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