United Airlines Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a medium-level technical interview where the focus was pretty clearly on DSA fundamentals.

I got asked two moderate problems—one tied to arrays and another rooted in trees. The interviewer was friendly throughout, so even when I hesitated, the tone stayed constructive.

What stood out was that after the DSA part, the conversation shifted into my experience. They asked about one of my projects in depth, digging into how it worked and how I thought through the problem. It didn’t feel like a rigid checklist; it felt like they wanted to connect the coding questions to how I actually built things.

By the end, I felt like I’d shown both the technical basics and the story behind my

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