Xero·Software Engineer

Xero Software Engineer interview experience

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MelbournePosted Aug 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter phone call, I was scheduled for a technical screen with the team I’d be joining.

That round was high-level and heavily tied to my background—what I’d actually worked on before—plus a focus on OOP concepts. It felt pretty straightforward as long as I could clearly explain my past work and how I applied object-oriented ideas.

Next came a take-home coding assessment. It was a small C# application with bugs and empty methods, and the expectation was modular, well-structured code with unit tests. When I finished, I discussed my solution with the technical team. That discussion mattered: they pushed on why I made certain choices, and it wasn’t unusual to have me make

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