Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Software Engineer interview experience

I was put in front of a white board for a long stretch—at least thirty minutes, sometimes closer to an hour—and I had to answer technical questions while drawing diagrams and working through solutions.

What they cared about most wasn’t just whether I could arrive at an answer; it was whether I genuinely understood what I was doing. I remember feeling that the process rewarded honesty: they wanted to see what I knew and where the gaps were, and they didn’t want vague guessing.

Because the whole round revolved around live reasoning on the board, it felt difficult in a very particular