SScotiabank·Software Engineer

Scotiabank Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

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

My process started with an interview setup that felt pretty intense for how many skills they wanted to judge.

I had a recruiter screen, and then moved into a technical panel with multiple people across separate sessions. The technical portion leaned into both behavioral and coding, and it was challenging enough that I remember it as genuinely difficult.

The coding side wasn’t just “easy problems,” either. There was pair-programming style work, plus medium-leetcode questions and a SQL component, though they weren’t asking me to write SQL queries directly—more about relational concepts. Another part of the process was a mini assignment focused on web development, which added another layer of time and

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