SSchweitzer Engineering Laboratories·Software Engineer

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Software Engineer interview experience

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Pullman, WAPosted Mar 2012 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a phone-style intake where the interviewer jumped straight into straightforward power-and-systems questions.

It wasn’t a trick interview—rather, it focused on whether I had the fundamentals down around power system concepts, protection, and power flow calculations, plus conductor selection. The questions felt “easy” in framing, but the catch was obvious: if my power system background wasn’t solid, I would have been stuck.

That theme stayed consistent. Even though the questions were presented as simple, they kept circling around protection work—things like relay settings. By the end of the screen, it felt like they were quickly checking whether I could reason accurately in the protection domain, not

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