U.S. Bank Software Engineer interview experience

I went in through a more formal panel setup, and the questioning quickly turned into a kind of high-pressure fit check that didn’t feel welcoming. There was talk about needing a very specific set of skills, and I got the sense the bar was set for something narrowly defined rather than for transferable capability.

As I moved through the rounds, the topics themselves kept shifting in ways that threw me off. I expected questions that matched the cloud services I’d been working with, but I was instead pulled into areas like databases and compliance. Even when I started answering, the interviewer