Principal Financial Group·Software Engineer

Principal Financial Group Software Engineer interview experience

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SantiagoPosted Nov 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The interview loop felt long, but I also appreciated that it seemed designed to check both technical fit and cultural alignment.

I went through several stages, including conversations with people from technical and business sides. It wasn’t a quick pass; it took time, and I kept waiting through multiple steps.

What helped was that I was consistently notified about progress and what was coming next, even though the process dragged on. The format I experienced included a recorded one-way interview followed by a virtual conversation with multiple employees. In one of the live rounds, the structure was pretty time-boxed—quick introductions, a chunk of behavioral questions, then a technical assessment, and finally time for

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