Qinetiq·Software Engineer

Qinetiq Software Engineer interview experience

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Waltham, MAPosted Jul 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a process that started out with a couple of rounds that felt fine, but the final round turned into a disaster.

The first red flag for me was that they kept positioning me for an associate track even though I had two years of directly related experience. I also got told a compensation figure was too high, and the later reality was that another role I ended up in paid more—so it felt off from the start.

The final phase ended up being five back-to-back technical interviews, camera-on, from late morning into early afternoon with no breaks. Interviewers went overtime so everything ran late, and I was effectively answering while the schedule was already slipping. One interviewer asked about my technical

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