Thales Software Engineer interview experience

I started with an interview that went through my resume in depth, then moved into questions on object-oriented programming and the SOLID principles. The technical part included small LeetCode-style problems—questions about factorial and palindrome—where I answered with the reasoning rather than getting overly stuck on syntax.

After that, I ran into a coding-focused step that felt more like design thinking than brute memorization. I had to interpret code snippets that were shared with me, reading the code out loud and explaining how I understood the behavior. That also led into discussing