Principal Financial Group·Software Engineer

Principal Financial Group Software Engineer interview experience

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PunePosted Aug 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got pulled in through an aptitude exam run by Elitmus, and after the results I was shortlisted for interviews.

The process moved pretty fast—within about a day I heard back and then had to go through three rounds that felt mostly like elimination stages. The structure was two technical discussions plus a final HR round.

My technical rounds focused heavily on what I’d written about myself—projects and the basics behind them—plus a few general topics like data structures and coding fundamentals. The difficulty felt light overall, but the aptitude test before interviews was the part that actually surprised me, because it was described as tough even when the live questions were manageable. Across the

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