Turing Software Engineer interview experience

The recruiter offered a maximum hourly rate of about $25/hr for a Python Engineer role tied to a prominent AI company in the US, despite the fact that I knew others were getting paid more for the same role even with less experience.

So even though the technical side had gone well enough that I made it to the final step, the compensation mismatch became the stopping point.

The difficulty was described as average, but the real shock wasn’t the interview work—it was how the offer stage played out. I didn’t end up taking the offer, and it left me feeling like the selection process may have been