Vanguard Software Engineer interview experience

Then the difficulty jumped into something that felt less like normal interview discussion and more like a memorization or certification-style quiz.

I was asked for meanings behind acronyms—what specific words they stood for—and even about when certain technologies were developed. There were also very detailed questions that required walking through the whole menu system of GPO, delivered in a way that depended on recall. It wasn’t the kind of knowledge I expected to be required off the top of my head, and it threw me off because I wasn’t prepared for that level of rote specificity.

I didn’t