Us Government Jobs Software Engineer interview experience

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SydneyPosted Aug 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call, I ended up going through a pretty standard sequence: first a coding challenge, then an interview with the tech team and HR, and finally a meeting with the director.

The coding part was time-boxed enough to feel like an actual exercise rather than a take-home, and by the time I got to the tech/HR conversation I was already bracing for a mix of fit and fundamentals.

The middle round focused on cultural and technical aspects at the same time. I remember questions that touched both how I’d worked before and how I think about quality—things like manual QA, Selenium, and the broader SDLC, including how code and features get checked and tested. The HR presence also made it feel like they were calibrating for team fit, not just right/wrong answers. The whole

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