ServiceNow·Software Engineer

ServiceNow Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

HyderābādPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had two back-to-back technical interviews, each lasting about 60 minutes, and the overall tone shifted hard after the first round.

The first discussion went well enough, but the second interview felt very difficult.

Both rounds used DSA-style problems in a LeetCode-ish format, and one of the questions specifically involved backtracking. The thing that stood out was how much they cared about actually knowing the implementation details of common data structures—not just being able to describe the idea.

By the end I was clearly struggling more than I expected, and I didn’t receive an offer. Looking back, what threw me off wasn’t the topic area—it was the sudden jump in difficulty and the insistence on solid

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