Philips Software Engineer interview experience

The main thing I remember was being asked to rate my own abilities for data structures, followed by a series of programming questions—arrays, and then prompts that drifted into classic string/number checks like reversing strings and checking for palindromes. There were also questions about what I was interested in and discussions tied back to projects I’d done.

Overall it felt direct and a bit taxing, mainly because it moved fast from self-assessment into problem-solving. I left feeling like the interview was testing fundamentals more than anything situational, and since the questions were