SScotiabank·Software Engineer

Scotiabank Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

Toronto, ONPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I joined the interview about five minutes early, and that turned out to be stressful because the main interviewer showed up roughly 20 minutes late.

Once the session finally started, I felt like I had solid, detailed answers and I even explained the business rationale behind decisions I’d made on past projects.

Still, something about the way the discussion landed bothered me. I felt like parts of my answers were judged on assumptions that didn’t match the context I was trying to clarify, and I also came away frustrated by the implication that I was relying on AI tools, since I wasn’t. A Python coding exercise got skipped because the requirements weren’t clearly defined, which made it hard to know what the “correct” solution and

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