PlayStation·Software Engineer

PlayStation Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Aliso Viejo, CAPosted May 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was pulled in through LinkedIn and the early recruiter stage felt great—quick responses and a responsive tone—then the rest of the process turned into a slower, more frustrating scheduling run than I expected.

I had a recruiter chat and then a conversation with the hiring manager. I’d heard they often do a technical screen before the manager chat, but that step seemed skipped for me. After that, I went through multiple video interviews—coding, system design, and behavioral—but coordinating the sessions took a long time, and one interview was canceled at the last minute after I’d already taken time off.

For the technical interview, there were no clear hints about what to study beyond general prep with LeetCode. When I joined, I was instead asked a systems programming problem, which threw off my

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