SSchweitzer Engineering Laboratories·Software Engineer

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Software Engineer interview experience

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Pullman, WAPosted Sep 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied after seeing a posting, and within a day or two I got an email to schedule an HR phone interview.

They also sent attachments about the company’s culture, and I could tell they cared a lot about that—so I actually read through the material before the call. The HR interview itself took about an hour. The first part was centered on why I wanted to work there; it surprised me that it wasn’t packed with the usual strange behavioral prompts. Then they asked a few foundational C/C++ questions—stuff like unions, and what I knew about semaphores and mutexes.

They followed up with a programming task by email: a string manipulation function to search for a target substring and replace it. I had a

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