Principal Financial Group·Software Engineer

Principal Financial Group Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

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PunePosted Mar 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied for a JavaScript/Vue-related role and the technical part was the most intense part of the whole journey.

I had two interviewers, and the discussion moved through a pretty wide spread of front-end fundamentals: core JavaScript and Vue concepts, HTTP status codes, debugging in VS Code and Chrome, and then topics like CI/CD, unit testing and integration testing. We also dug into when to use different iteration patterns and how map and filter differ, plus function binding and object reference behavior.

We also spent time on a lot of specific calling conventions—call, bind, apply—and the interviewer asked me follow-up questions as we worked through the concepts. The overall difficulty felt high, and

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