PPSEG·Software Engineer

PSEG Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Newark, NJPosted Oct 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview consisted of both behavioral and technical questions, and they explicitly used the STAR format for the behavioral responses.

What made the session feel long wasn’t that the questions were impossible—it was the way the interviewers handled note-taking. They painstakingly wrote down my answers into pre-formatted questionnaires, which meant I had to repeat myself at times so it could get captured properly.

Because the interviewers were so focused on filling out their documents, the pacing dragged compared to what I expected. At moments it felt like the act of re-stating my answers became part of the job, not just answering the questions in the first place.

The overall difficulty was average, but the experience

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