Verily·Software Engineer

Verily Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

Waterloo, ONPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first real step was a 45-minute technical screening that didn’t feel like a recruiter-led conversation at all—I didn’t get much time to talk about my prior experience.

During that screen, the interviewer focused entirely on the coding task, and it felt like they weren’t interested in my background.

After that, the process went straight into a heavy onsite style loop built around a lot of consecutive coding. I ended up with multiple 45-minute coding rounds back-to-back, which was honestly brain draining in practice. The interviewers largely acted like proctors rather than collaborators, and it felt like the evaluation was mostly “can you code under time?” rather than “tell us what you’ve built and what your strengths are.” I kept waiting for space to

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