Shield AI Software Engineer interview experience

From the very beginning, the conversation kept circling back to culture, and I was asked multiple times what I liked about the company’s culture. That repeated emphasis made me uncomfortable because I was being asked to validate values I didn’t have enough context to truly know.

During the manager conversation, a lot of the time felt like it was spent on how the manager viewed himself and how he lived his life, including personal commentary about not going to grad school. There was also an implication that I was “lucky” to have gone to grad school and that it was because of rich