ShipBob·Software Engineer

ShipBob Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Medium

Positive

Chicago, ILPosted Mar 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a phone call with a technical HR representative, and then the process moved quickly to an onsite interview that lasted about an hour and a half.

At the onsite, I was asked to write a couple of queries based on a given database structure, so the technical focus leaned heavily toward SQL and interpreting schema details.

After the query portion, I talked through a project I’d worked on and showed it to them directly, since I had my laptop with me. That practical demo element made the interview feel more grounded and less theoretical, and it gave me a way to connect the earlier database thinking to something I’d actually built.

It felt like an efficient, compact process with an average difficulty level. I didn’t get an offer, but I

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