Perk·Software Engineer

Perk Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

GermanyPosted Apr 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My earliest step was a long manager interview that felt more like an endurance test than a conversation.

The interviewer had hundreds of questions up on a second screen, and I had to think carefully through each one. I remember one prompt that was unusually hard to answer on the spot: the biggest mistake I’d made. I couldn’t pull something perfect from memory under pressure.

When the recruiter later gave feedback, the frustrating part was that the interviewer’s answer became an argument for rejecting me. It felt like a question designed for honesty, only for that honesty to work against me.

I was rejected early on and never moved further. I felt glad in a weird way that I didn’t spend more

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