Vertafore Software Engineer interview experience

My first screen was fairly typical and lasted about half an hour. A week later I had another phone conversation with the hiring manager, and that was followed by a string of on-site interviews the next week.

The on-site portion felt like a “loop” structure. It started with an HR check-in, then I moved into two separate one-on-one technical interviews that each ran about an hour. What stood out was how the technical interviews leaned heavily on trivial and esoteric puzzles—very much in the style of puzzles you’d expect from Microsoft—rather than anything tied to the actual software