Persistent Systems Software Engineer interview experience

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PunePosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started off the way interviews usually do—then quickly went off the rails in the technical round.

The interviewer didn’t even greet me properly and jumped straight into questions with a rude, unprofessional tone. I answered most of the earlier items correctly, but the interaction felt combative from the start.

We moved into coding right after that. I had to work through a snippet-style problem where the expectation was to run the code after writing it, and while I was able to complete the coding portion, the interviewer kept shifting into unclear, seemingly irrelevant questions. What made it worse was the impression that the questions weren’t even well-formed; it felt like the

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