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Accenture in IndiaSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Accenture in India Software Engineer interview: HR to coding

I started with an HR conversation and introduced myself before anything technical. Next came an aptitude test, followed by a coding interview focused on my career background and expertise. The final stage was more about how I approach problems than about writing under pressure. I discussed strategies, scenarios, and principles, and it felt as if they wanted to understand my thinking and technical…

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Josh TechnologyFrontend Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Josh Technology Frontend Engineer interview: JavaScript-heavy process

My first in-office round was DSA-oriented and firmly JavaScript-centric. It mixed aptitude questions with logic problems that had to be coded in JavaScript. The preassessment felt hardest because of graph and restriction-style prompts and the strict JavaScript requirement. After clearing it, I had more JavaScript machine-coding rounds and a final one-on-one technical interview. Arrays and common…

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JOHN LEONARDSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

JOHN LEONARD Software Engineer interview: timed HireVue

A few business days after I applied, I received an interview invitation that went straight to HireVue. I read prompts one at a time and had preparation time, but the total recording window was tight. I answered on camera with limited attempts for each question. Most prompts were behavioral and used STAR, but a coding challenge appeared at the end inside the same timed window. I could not ask clar…

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Jpmorgan Chase &Business Analyst
Reported Jul 2026

Jpmorgan Chase & Business Analyst interview: poor interview experience

This Business Analyst interview left me shaken. The interviewers seemed unprepared and had trouble guiding the discussion. When I asked ordinary questions, they appeared to get tangled up in their answers, and I perceived a tone that bordered on mockery. Instead of feeling comfortable or guided, I felt interviewed by people who were not ready to do it. I also sensed pressure about returning to fu…

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McGraw HillSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

McGraw Hill Software Engineer interview: verbal engineering discussion

After a brief recruiter chat, I had what was scheduled as an engineering-manager discussion, although a senior developer led it. It was a one-hour, verbal technical round with no live coding. We discussed Terraform, CI/CD strategy, GitHub Actions, observability, and day-to-day production support. I also described a simple education-domain schema for teachers, students, classes, and assignments, i…

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Prime VideoSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Prime Video Software Engineer interview: compact practical rounds

I had two one-hour interviews. Each included one technical question and Leadership Principles. I was also asked about AI use. A hiring manager introduced one round with a top-k-style problem without an API. Another technical prompt used a restaurant-manager scenario involving groups arriving, so it felt more applied than a textbook coding exercise. I did not receive an offer. For such a short pro…

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Prime VideoSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Prime Video Software Engineer interview: take-home and AI tool

I began with a HackerRank take-home and did not solve everything perfectly. A second task used 'AI assistance,' but the tool felt unusable to me, so it was more of a distraction than help. I still advanced to an interview with LeetCode-style questions and questions about my experience. It came too soon for me to recover from the earlier work, and I was rejected the next day. The earlier gaps felt…

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Prime VideoSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Prime Video Software Engineer interview experience

Before the interviews, I spent hours on coding challenges and felt the preparation pay off immediately. The first technical question was about substring lengths and matched something I had seen while preparing. I was then asked about merging linked lists, followed by a behavioral question about frugality. The process was straightforward and approachable, which surprised me given the usual intensi…

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PhenomSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Phenom Software Engineer interview experience

The interviews began smoothly and felt friendly, especially in the panel setting. Still, the questions were more demanding than I expected. Discussions of my experience made clear they wanted more than surface familiarity. In the final assessment, the feedback turned on system-design fit. That surprised me because it did not seem strongly aligned with what I had demonstrated, and it felt made up…

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PalantirSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Palantir Software Engineer interview experience

The process began with a basic recruiter call, then an OA, followed by a first technical round that already felt like a moving target. I had to do decomp and debug in the interview flow. The final technical round combined coding and behavioral questions. The journey had a coin-flip quality: it seemed possible to be solid technically and still not proceed, or to perform roughly and still advance d…

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NatWestSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

NatWest Software Engineer interview experience

A recruiter reached out on LinkedIn and set up an initial technical discussion of about 30 minutes with two people. One gave a short company introduction, then the questions began without much time for a personal introduction. The other interviewer asked a dense set of questions on Java, thread safety, reactive paradigms, data structures, and cloud topics. The atmosphere felt cold and detached. T…

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PinterestSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Pinterest Software Engineer interview experience

The technical screen was difficult in a specific way: it was a LeetCode medium-to-hard problem with about an hour to solve it. I could receive hints, but was still expected to reach the solution myself instead of relying on help. Even with collaboration allowed, the clock mattered heavily. I did not progress to an offer, and the high bar left the familiar feeling that being almost there was not e…

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PetcoAccount Executive
Reported Jul 2026

Petco Account Executive interview experience

After a recruiter screen of about 30 minutes, I had a longer hiring-manager conversation of roughly an hour. It centered on how I ran deals: sales methodology, deal cycles, and handling objections. The final stage stood out most. In a panel, I performed a mock cold call or role-play and then gave a deeper walkthrough of past numbers. That round was the most demanding, and it felt closest to testi…

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Oscar HealthSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Oscar Health Software Engineer interview experience

Recruiter outreach was quick. After a short recruiter call with basic Q&A, I went to a technical screen that was essentially a hard, tightly constrained LeetCode-style coding task. I was warned that the question would be challenging, and it was. I did not have a comparable pattern fresh in mind, and getting to a complete answer inside the time limit was difficult. The interviewer seemed to know t…

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NuroSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Nuro Software Engineer interview experience

A recruiter first contacted me about availability, then we had an initial screening call about my background and experience. It was a standard conversation for setting context and understanding what I had done. About a week later, I had a technical interview with the hiring manager, and the questions became much more domain-specific. The interview focused on systems engineering rather than generi…

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PwCSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

PwC Software Engineer interview experience

Poor communication defined my PwC process. I had to confirm the technical-interview time by email several times. After the office visit, there was no clear next-step timeline, and weeks of waiting brought no meaningful status update. When I asked talent acquisition, the reply was vague and amounted to a promise that someone would get back to me soon. After a long pause, I received an email saying…

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Steven Douglas AssociatesSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Steven Douglas Associates Software Engineer interview experience

The HireVue video interview was time-boxed and unforgiving. I read each prompt, thought, and recorded a camera response with little total time and no way to ask clarifying questions. The behavioral questions were ordinary, but the real pressure came from a coding challenge added near the end of that same limited window. It felt unlike normal live coding. The editor was unexplained, and I had to w…

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Starr CompaniesSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Starr Companies Software Engineer interview experience

Within a few business days of applying, I was invited to interview through an AI-style HireVue recording. I logged in, read one prompt at a time, had a short preparation window, and recorded a camera response. The questions were mostly STAR-style behavioral questions, with two attempts per prompt. Using the second attempt submitted it automatically. Near the end, a coding challenge appeared in th…

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SpacexSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Spacex Software Engineer interview experience

The recruiter-to-technical flow was fairly standard, but it became a full evaluation cycle. It started with HR or cultural fit, followed by technical conversations with team members. In one technical discussion, I spoke directly about prior jobs while several people listened and occasionally joined in. Later rounds demanded deeper understanding and clearer communication. The hiring manager was in…

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Robert SlackSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Robert Slack Software Engineer interview experience

A few business days after applying, I received an interview invitation and began with a HireVue-style recording. It was highly automated: I read behavioral prompts and had a small window to record each answer on camera. I could redo answers a couple of times, but there was no interaction or sense of whether my answers landed. Near the end, the same session included coding. I could not ask clarify…

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What are interview experiences?

An interview experience is a candidate's own account of a hiring loop — not a question bank entry. It tells you the shape of the process: how many rounds there were, what each round actually tested, how long the gaps between them ran, and what the recruiter said at the end. That context is the part a question list cannot give you.

How to read them

Weight recent write-ups more heavily — interview loops change, often within a year. Read several for the same company and role rather than one: a single account tells you what one interviewer asked, while five tell you what the bar is. Note the outcome badge too, since a rejection write-up usually explains the gap far more precisely than an offer one.

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