Toyota North America Software Engineer interview experience

I was asked three STAR questions, including prompts about how I networked within a company and how that helped me, a time where the root cause of a problem wasn’t obvious, and how I thought about my goals.

After that came ten easier questions—things like how much overtime was acceptable and whether I could travel. The most intense part was the manager panel: five interviewers total, four normal managers and one senior manager, each following a scorecard. I had to really hit the STAR format cleanly to stay aligned with what they were evaluating.

Difficulty felt genuinely difficult mainly