Red Hat·Software Engineer

Red Hat Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

Calgary, ABPosted Aug 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process felt chaotic and it honestly wore me down more than the technical parts did.

Scheduling kept changing on me, and the format and who I was supposed to meet with shifted late in the process. At one point I had expected a developer-led first interview, but it turned into a manager conversation from a different project and team.

What made it especially frustrating was the mismatch between what the recruitment platform implied and what actually happened with the assigned recruiter. The communication felt inconsistent—there was enough back-and-forth that I couldn’t settle into a rhythm, and it created a lot of wasted time waiting rather than preparing.

By the time I got

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