Verizon Software Engineer interview experience

I wasn’t able to move forward past that stage, and it was frustrating because I felt like I was making it through the initial steps but then hit a hard stop.

During my screen for an SRE role, the recruiter was asking for numbers before they could generate an offer, and that made the whole interaction feel less like a typical technical evaluation and more like a gating process. That difference in tone was what threw me off—there were a lot of signals that I needed to provide specific information in a particular way, and once that piece didn’t line up, the conversation didn’t keep going.

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