VVerisign·Software Engineer

Verisign Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Reston, VAPosted Jun 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview day ran from noon to four, and it was structured around a practical task.

Between noon and one, I went out to eat with the interviewer in Reston Town Center, and they acted friendly during the lunch. But once we returned, the practical started quickly: they asked a few questions and then put a computer on a TV setup so they could watch while I worked through the timed task.

No googling was allowed, and the whole setting felt awkward—there was a lot of silence and a sense of pressure as they grilled me during the practical with questions that felt “stupid” or tangential. They seemed especially interested if I knew design patterns and algorithms, and the topics

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