Teradata·Software Engineer

Teradata Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

San Diego, CAPosted Jul 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter phone call, then had a phone conversation with the hiring manager before landing an onsite.

On the onsite day they called me at 10:30 am, and the whole thing was built around four separate interviews. I ran into SQL questions and coding prompts across the sessions, and when I mentioned my background was in Java, the interviewers still expected me to code in Python—something I hadn’t used in a few years—so that mismatch really weighed on me.

What surprised me most was how uneven the interview felt. The engineers seemed unsure what to ask and, honestly, it came across like they were learning the flow as they went. Afterward, I sent a thank-you email to the hiring manager, but I

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