SSchweitzer Engineering Laboratories·Software Engineer

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

Posted Dec 2011 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for a senior software engineering role that required a thirty-minute presentation on a topic of my choice.

The day before, the software team manager basically told me he didn’t like my subject and asked me to pick something else. I still went in with the expectation that the presentation would be followed by questions afterward.

What threw me off was how the panel handled the presentation: two panel members constantly interrupted while I was presenting, which pushed the discussion past the planned time. When I finally got to the technical questions portion, almost everything they asked was electrical-engineering related, even though the role was framed as software engineering. The same two people

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