Principal Financial Group·Software Engineer

Principal Financial Group Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Apr 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with recorded interviews—first a pre-recorded behavioral and background-style session, where I answered prompts ahead of time.

After that, a week later I moved into a live video behavioral and technical interview, and then about another week after that I had a final behavioral chat with other team members.

When I finally got live, it still felt pretty collaborative rather than combative. Even though there was a technical component, the overall vibe was conversational and more interested in how I approached problems and how I worked with others. One of the technical conversations stayed fairly abstract—there was a design-style prompt about a vending machine—so it didn’t feel like a trick coding test. The rest of the

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