TTrimble·Software Engineer

Trimble Software Engineer interview experience

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Sunnyvale, CAPosted Nov 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started with a telephonic round, and then I moved to a Skype-based conversation because of the location mismatch.

For me it was clearly a C++ developer profile, and the interview leaned toward coding rather than broad theory. Even when the coding questions weren’t described as brutally hard, the requirement that I run through the solution in front of the interviewer made it feel more real-time and less comfortable than a static Q&A.

After that, the rest of the process felt straightforward and targeted. There was a lot of attention on data structures and on the more systems-adjacent topics that fit C/C++, and when I mentioned any prior hardware exposure, it seemed to land well with the interviewer. The

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