Principal Financial Group·Software Engineer

Principal Financial Group Software Engineer interview experience

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PunePosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an HR call that was basically a screening, and then it took about a week before I got scheduled for my first technical round.

That round ran around 1.5 hours. After that, there was another week of waiting while I waited for confirmation on whether I passed, and once I cleared it, I was brought into a manager + technical round.

That second round was an hour long, and it was structured as a manager-led technical discussion rather than a pure coding sprint. After I cleared both rounds, the last step was an HR round focused on offer discussion, and that’s when I moved toward the final stage. The overall timeline was fairly stretched because of the back-and-forth between rounds, but the format stayed straightforward and

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