Western Digital Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

IsraelPosted Dec 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a more social, competition-style set of interviews where I wasn’t just speaking one-on-one.

One part of the process was a group format with other candidates where the energy felt very competitive rather than relaxed, and the questions didn’t seem to have a consistent difficulty—some were surprisingly easy while others were much harder, which made it harder to read what they were optimizing for.

There was also a round where the interviewers asked me to sort through an abstract problem about colored balls—given an array with three colors, they wanted it sorted in the minimum time. That kind of question threw me off a little because it wasn’t framed like a typical “explain your

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