Us Government Jobs Software Engineer interview experience

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San Francisco, CAPosted Sep 2013 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My most intense interview ended up being a full-day kind of gauntlet.

They told me to expect being there for about five hours, with the idea that I’d meet every member of the team I’d be working with. The flow started with a brief manager conversation, and then it quickly jumped into technical whiteboarding.

During the whiteboarding stretch, I was implementing a basic Rails application and trying to tackle a pretty hard problem on the spot. What surprised me was that the interview didn’t stop at the live portion: the problem I started there carried into a home follow-up where I was expected to improve what I’d done and send it in after the fact.

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