Spectrum·Software Engineer

Spectrum Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for a software engineer position, but the experience felt completely off from the job description.

During the interview, the focus landed entirely on DevOps topics—things like Terraform, Docker, and AWS infrastructure—with no real opportunity for me to demonstrate software engineering or coding.

To make it worse, the interview felt disengaged: the interviewer didn’t turn on their camera, and the questions stayed locked to infrastructure instead of development. I answered the DevOps questions confidently, but I still got told they were looking for more experience. When I asked directly why the role was labeled software engineering if no coding was involved, I was told there wasn’t really

Create a free Dataford account to unlock the full round-by-round breakdown, the questions asked and the outcome.

Read the full report Read the full report

Preparing for this interview?

Spectrum Software Engineer interview guideThe full process, round by round, with the question bank Practice Software Engineer interview questionsReal questions from this role across companies All Spectrum interview guidesEvery role we cover at this company