ZEISS Group Software Engineer interview experience

I had an initial phone call with a recruiter where salary expectations came up, then a Skype round with both the recruiter and the hiring manager. After that, I went into an in-person panel interview with HR and a manager and a director, and the focus shifted to presentation skills and behavioural-style questions.

There was also a heavier, more uncomfortable version of a similar structured format. I walked in and, almost immediately, the conversation got intense and personal—without even any proper self-introduction, a team leader pushed me on what I’d been doing over my whole timeline up to