PlayStation·Software Engineer

PlayStation Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Dec 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I scheduled a phone interview after an email told me to have a laptop ready because it was supposed to include a coding exercise.

I prepared for that format, expecting the coding component to be central.

A day before the interview, the recruiter came back and said the manager had decided a senior team member would conduct the interview instead, and that immediately changed the shape of what I was walking into. During the interview, I realized it wasn’t coding at all—it turned into a Q&A on concepts. I wasn’t prepared for that pivot, and I still answered everything I could, but I missed one question.

What made it land poorly was that when I asked about the mismatch, the interviewer seemed genuinely unaware that it was

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