Software Engineer interview at Anaplan: collaborative pair programming

I began with a recruiter introduction to align on expectations and discuss my background. Technical conversations then went deeply into projects I had actually worked on rather than trying to catch me with gotcha questions. In pair programming, I debugged and coded collaboratively, with attention to how I approached problems. I later presented a system to the hiring manager and discussed tradeoff…

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