SSchweitzer Engineering Laboratories·Software Engineer

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Dec 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and started with an initial screening interview, then I moved into a second interview that mixed behavioral and technical questions.

That second stage is why I left with a negative impression.

The technical questions required clarification, but the interviewer was an HR intern who wasn’t able to clarify or properly evaluate the kinds of engineering responses being requested. The format didn’t feel like a multiple-choice style where there’d be a single correct answer—some questions were framed more like opinion prompts about what’s most important in a system, which made it hard to believe they had a consistent engineering rubric.

The intern was polite, and that wasn’t the problem, but it felt like a poor fit for

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