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…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.