SSchweitzer Engineering Laboratories·Software Engineer

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Software Engineer interview experience

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Pullman, WAPosted Feb 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first round was an HR phone call where they asked about company values and why I wanted to work at SEL, along with a handful of easy technical questions.

Soon after, the engineers wanted to schedule an hour-long technical interview on MS Teams.

That second interview didn’t involve programming in my case. Instead, the questions focused on computer architecture, OS, embedded software engineering, object-oriented programming, and specific C++ topics. The process felt good overall and the interviewers were professional, but I didn’t move forward after I couldn’t answer a couple of very basic C++ questions.

I didn’t receive an offer, and even though the experience was standard and the feedback wasn’t hostile, it made it clear how sensitive they

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