Western Digital Software Engineer interview experience

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Los Angeles, CAPosted Apr 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I walked into the technical portion expecting standard coding questions, but the interview leaned hard on implementation basics for algorithms and data structures.

One question specifically asked me to reverse a string, and it was clear they were looking for correct mechanics and clean understanding of how to translate the task into code.

In the rounds I went through, C and systems-adjacent topics came up alongside DSA-style questions. The format also included choices—at one point they effectively let me pick between a DSA prompt, an operating-systems topic, or walking through an algorithm—while still keeping the pressure on me to answer crisply. I also had to code on the spot in the technical assessment, and the whole combined session felt like a

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