Prudential Software Engineer interview experience

The conversation started with only a few probes about my past experience or why I’d left my previous company; it honestly felt like they weren’t digging into my history much at all.

Then I had an hour-long technical interview that felt almost too easy. The tasks were centered on very specific AWS-related work: adding an S3 bucket into AWS by writing/editing what was essentially provided, and then writing a script to parse a YAML file and upload files into S3 in under 15 minutes. I remember being thrown by how much the interviewer was walking through choices that seemed off, including