Principal Financial Group Software Engineer interview experience

The format included a mix of question attempts: some questions had limited retries while others let me try freely, and they warned me about that ahead of time.

After the recorded stage, I moved into phone-based interviews that were essentially behavioral and focused on my background. In my case, I spoke with two groups back-to-back, with each half-hour segment kept strictly inside the allotted time. The conversations were friendly, but it still felt a little rushed because the structure didn’t leave room for topics to breathe, even if the discussion was going well.

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