Principal Financial Group Software Engineer interview experience

HR had framed it as a technical round followed by behavioral, yet the process ended up doing behavioral before the technical material. What also stood out was that they didn’t seem to care much about technical knowledge.

Instead, I felt like I spent time on an aptitude test that turned out to be more of a riddle-style exercise copied from a common reference site. I had to clear that aptitude hurdle to get into interviews, and it felt like the effort was required even though it wasn’t mentored or guided—despite the fact that people who apparently didn’t know the basics of aptitude still made