Principal Financial Group·Software Engineer

Principal Financial Group Software Engineer interview experience

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MumbaiPosted Sep 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the recruiter phase, I ended up going through a multi-round interview that felt structured and a bit competitive.

The overall flow was four rounds: a test first, then a technical round, followed by a managerial round, and then a final HR round. The interviewers took time to get settled and asked questions to learn more about me, and I had to be ready to answer logical-style questions too.

The technical part leaned heavily on Java fundamentals. I was asked about core topics like collections, Java 8, and how things like hibernate and Spring dependency injection fit together. Before that, the test round was essentially MCQs—both theoretical questions and prompts where I had to reason through what Java code

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