Pearson Software Engineer interview experience

After the recruiter stage, I had two rounds of interviews. The first one was more general, with simpler questions to set context. The second round was deeper and felt like it was built around my resume—going into my prior experience and asking for a more detailed, technical dive.

I expected the process to include live coding because of how the recruiter conversations sounded, but the technical discussion ended up being largely conversation-based. I talked through what I’d worked on and how I approached the work I’d listed, and I spent more time explaining decisions and reasoning than writing