The College Board Software Engineer interview experience

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Charlottesville, VAPosted Sep 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a pretty smooth, well-managed on-campus process that made everything feel calm.

It started with a brief HR conversation where I talked about myself and went over my resume for about 30 minutes, then I moved into a second, longer technical round that ran around an hour. The technical part leaned heavily on SQL, including hands-on coding, with questions that felt very grounded in day-to-day query work.

The SQL questions themselves were mostly about joins and building queries, and the panel stayed friendly and approachable the whole time. Even when the questions were simple, they didn’t feel like traps—they felt like they were trying to gauge how I thought through the

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