Principal Financial Group·Software Engineer

Principal Financial Group Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted Nov 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an on-demand video interview where I recorded answers to prompts at my own pace.

The process felt low-pressure in the sense that it wasn’t live, and it was mostly about talking through my experience rather than doing anything like coding. After that, I was contacted and moved into a video interview with two engineers, which ended up lasting about thirty minutes even though it was labeled as longer.

In that live video stage, the questions stayed heavily behavioral—there were essentially no technical questions, and I just talked about my background while also being able to ask questions. A couple weeks later I received an email that I wasn’t going to move forward.

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