Tessian·Software Engineer

Tessian Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

London, EnglandPosted May 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a short sequence that started with submitting my CV, then getting a call to discuss the role.

After that, I had a one-hour HackerRank challenge with a senior engineer. The test itself wasn’t described as wildly complex, but it didn’t play to my strengths—these kinds of questions depended heavily on knowing the syntax for specific data structures, and the web-based environment didn’t feel natural to me.

After the HackerRank step, I moved to a two-hour interview with a group of employees. That stage ended up being the one that stopped me, and by the time I didn’t progress further, the overall feeling was disappointment more than confusion. The challenge wasn’t “impossible,” but it was

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