Thermo Fisher Scientific Software Engineer interview experience

I was usually asked to walk through my resume and projects, and then they dug into the details of what I’d actually done—sometimes with straightforward prompts about systems and sometimes with scenarios meant to see how I’d reason.

One round stood out because it was explicitly split between leadership-style discussion and a coding exercise. I was asked to think aloud and talk through my plan, but then I got pushed to code the full solution immediately before reviewing it. I could feel my confidence wobble when my mind went blank, and I ended up recovering by coding the parts I was more