Western Digital Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted Feb 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a short phone conversation where the recruiter basically talked through my background and what I was looking for, to see if I was a fit.

A bit later I had a technical interview that felt fairly straightforward but very focused—questions around bit masks, how numbers look in binary, and a coding challenge.

The part that really threw me off was scheduling and communication. I received an email on a Wednesday saying my interview was set for Friday, and I spent most of Wednesday and Thursday preparing hard. Then I showed up expecting that day’s call and learned it had actually been scheduled for the following week, and nobody had told me despite the emails I’d sent while I waited. A week later I got a call asking if I was still

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