Persistent Systems Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

HyderābādPosted May 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process was only three rounds, but it ended up feeling genuinely tough because the last step was the one that broke my momentum.

The first round was a phone call with basic, straightforward questions, and it didn’t feel threatening. Then I had a manager round where the questions became tricky, and I could tell they expected sharper thinking and more careful answers.

The real turning point was the third round, a coding interview based on graphs and dynamic programming. I came up with a solution, and for a while I thought I was in good shape—until corner cases started to matter. When those edge scenarios surfaced, I wasn’t able to fully get through the test as confidently as I hoped.

I didn’t get an offer, and the

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