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3935 interview stories from candidates at 857 companies: how each round went, what was asked and how it ended. Every company page links to practice questions in the same style.
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- Hexaware Software Engineer Interview Experience: client interview pending after background checkHexaware · Software Engineer · Aug 2026
I started the process in July and it initially seemed promising. I cleared the assessment and technical rounds and was told a client interview would be scheduled. Instead, background verification began and I was asked for documents. Later I was told the position was on hold. The explanation was conflicting: no offer had been released because the client interview was still pending, which made me q…
- Hexaware Software Engineer Interview Experience: Four-round campus process with vibe codingHexaware · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026Rejected
I attended an on-campus Hexaware placement process with four rounds. Before it began, the placement team gave a pre-placement talk and explained the sequence, which made it less intimidating. The first round was a group discussion on general topics. The next was an online assessment with aptitude, technical MCQs, coding-style questions, and vibe coding. Then came a combined technical and HR inter…
- Hexaware Software Engineer Interview Experience: Java, Python, SQL, and final HR rejectionHexaware · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026Rejected
My process had four rounds: a group discussion, an online technical assessment, a technical interview, and an HR interview. The technical interview drew on my Java and Python self-ratings and my resume projects. Exception handling and SQL joins also came up. The HR round was the last step, and I could not get past it. I did not expect that because I felt I had done well in the technical interview…
- Hexaware Software Engineer interview with group discussion and OOPHexaware · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026Offer
My Hexaware process began with a group discussion on general topics. It tested how I communicated and how confidently I could present ideas, but the topics were not designed to trick me. Then I took a technical assessment with MCQs, pseudocode, aptitude, bug finding, logical reasoning, pattern matching, puzzles, and coding questions. That step felt manageable. The technical interview covered OOP,…
- Hexaware Software Engineer interview with Java, DBMS, and campus placementHexaware · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026
My interview started through campus placement, and the staff were friendly throughout the rounds. The first step was an online assessment with aptitude, logical reasoning, verbal ability, technical MCQs, and coding questions. The aptitude part felt medium, while coding was easy to medium. After clearing it, I had a technical interview on Java and OOP, DBMS and SQL, operating systems, and computer…
- Hexaware Software Engineer interview with timed aptitude and debugging OAHexaware · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026Rejected
The Hexaware process had four elimination-style rounds: a group discussion, an online assessment, a technical and HR interview, and a final general HR interview. The group discussion focused on communication. The online assessment combined aptitude, technical MCQs, debugging, short coding, and prompt-style tasks under strict time pressure. The aptitude section included data interpretation questio…
- Hiring Manager Chat Turned Technical, Then a Codility REST API Phone ScreenGeneral Motors · Software Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Aug 2026
Earlier I had a call with the hiring manager. I expected the whole thing to be behavioral, but surprisingly it was almost entirely about technical decisions — things like how you'd go from a monolith to microservices, the tradeoffs between the two, and then how you'd go from microservices to a more modular architecture, and how to make those calls. About a week after that call, a recruiter reache…
- Hiring Manager Screen, Then a Spreadsheet Tech Screen I Didn't FinishHarvey · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026Rejected
I applied online and a recruiter reached out. First round was a hiring manager screen. They asked questions like: tell me about a project I owned in the last year tell me about tough feedback I received tell me about a time I discovered an important problem outside of my immediate focus area Second round was the technical screen. It was similar to the spreadsheet question you can find online, but…
- HM Screen Where the Role Didn't Match the JDAirbnb · Data Scientist · HR Screen · Aug 2026
The HM started off by introducing what the team does, saying this team works on analytics-related stuff. He also mentioned there are two other data-related teams besides this one: the data science team and the modeling team. According to the HM, when the analytics team has work that needs research or a deep dive, it gets handed off to the data science team. I'm not totally clear on how Airbnb div…
- Honeywell Technologies Software Engineer Interview Experience: recruiter discussion of pay and benefitsHoneywell Technologies · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026
The selection process felt organized and fairly smooth. The recruiter conversation made the role and its expectations clear, and the questions were straightforward and easy to follow. Compensation and benefits also came up as part of discussing what the position would offer. It felt more like aligning expectations than a stressful grilling. I didn't receive an offer, but it was still a decent and…
- Honeywell Technologies Software Engineer Interview Experience: System design and AI themesHoneywell Technologies · Software Engineer · Aug 2026
The process focused on explaining concepts and showing how well I understood the work behind them. Rather than going straight into coding, it centered on the systems side of software engineering, and I spent a lot of time talking through system design ideas. There was also a noticeable focus on newer AI themes. I tried to connect what I knew to the current "latest trends" type of questions. The b…
- Hot Topic Account Executive Interview Experience: pop culture and customer scenariosHot Topic · Account Executive · Aug 2026
The interview was closer to sales-associate fundamentals than anything technical, but they also wanted to see whether I fit the store's vibe. The early questions covered helping customers, handling the basic functions in the job preview, and responding to customers who were shy or difficult. They also asked about my pop-culture interests, including music and shows. What stood out was discussing p…
- In-Memory File System OA, Four Levels DeepAirbnb · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026
The OA was an in-memory file system design problem: add files, copy files search files with prefix and suffix add users with capacity, add files by user, update user capacity compress and decompress files L1 and L2 were pretty straightforward. L3 required handling the relationship between users and files, and you had to modify the copy_file from L2. The copied file also has a size, and if size >…
- In-Person Onsite and an MVCC Follow-UpNuro · Software Engineer · Onsite · Aug 2026Rejected
Phone Screen: Coding: Given point coordinates, points less than k apart needed to be merged into a group. I used union-find. The follow-up asked what to do if there were a lot of points and they were very sparse, and how to reduce the computation. System design: Design a metrics-aggregation system. Each vehicle collects data about obstacles on the road, such as locations. There weren't many vehic…
- Industry-Leading National Security Consultancy Software Engineer Interview Experience: job description alignmentIndustry-Leading National Security Consultancy · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026
After a recruiter screening, I had a technical discussion and then a final HR round. The format was simple and professional, and it felt organized from the beginning. Across the rounds, the questions kept returning to my background and how I approached problem solving instead of trying to catch me off guard. The process took a long time and felt somewhat difficult as it built up. I came away with…
- Infosys Finacle Software Engineer Interview Experience: Calm SAP ABAP roundInfosys Finacle · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026
I had a smooth technical interview focused entirely on SAP ABAP. It was an online round that lasted around 45 minutes, and the atmosphere was calm and manageable. The questions centered on internal tables and RFC, including how they connect at the database level. It did not feel designed to catch me off guard. The point seemed to be whether I understood the ABAP concepts they cared about, and I l…
- Infosys Finacle Software Engineer Interview Experience: DevOps-focused managerial roundInfosys Finacle · Software Engineer · Aug 2026
I moved past the first round and was invited to a face-to-face managerial round. It was different from what I expected. Instead of the front-end or back-end follow-ups I had prepared for, the in-person questions focused on DevOps. The difficulty was average, but the change in direction caught me off guard and I had to recalibrate my answers as we talked. I stayed engaged and tried to remain consi…
- Infosys Finacle Software Engineer Interview Experience: greedy, DP, graphs, and SQLInfosys Finacle · Software Engineer · Aug 2026
The technical part centered on DSA and system design, usually connected to technologies from my resume rather than random theory. I had to solve and explain greedy, dynamic-programming, and graph problems. System-design discussions also covered tree structures, DP, graph reasoning, and SQL. The interviewer was helpful and the process ran smoothly, but the breadth made it harder than a typical eas…
- Infosys Finacle Software Engineer Interview Experience: Java backend, REST, and KubernetesInfosys Finacle · Software Engineer · Aug 2026
After a recruiter touchpoint, I had an online technical interview centered on Java and backend development. I was asked about multithreading, exception handling, JUnit, Spring, a small REST-controller example, Jenkins integration, and Kubernetes-related topics. The interviewer also covered Spring Boot, microservices, and SQL. The difficulty felt straightforward to moderate, about what I would exp…
- Infosys Finacle Software Engineer Interview Experience: microservice integration in two roundsInfosys Finacle · Software Engineer · Aug 2026
The process had two rounds. The technical interview lasted about 30 minutes, followed by a managerial round of around 45 minutes. The technical questions were practical and architecture-focused despite being presented as simple problems. I was asked how to connect two databases in a single microservice and how different microservices communicate. The manager conversation was longer and focused mo…
- Infosys Finacle Software Engineer Interview Experience: Respectful, well-paced discussionInfosys Finacle · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026Offer
The interview was professional and relatively pleasant. After the earlier stages, I had a moderately difficult round that stayed respectful and well paced. Both HR and the interviewer were calm, and the conversation focused heavily on my background. I talked about my resume and the role. It was interactive rather than a simple question-and-answer exchange. By the end, I was waiting for the next s…
- Infosys Finacle Software Engineer Interview Experience: Salesforce permissions and Apex testingInfosys Finacle · Software Engineer · Aug 2026
My virtual technical interview ran about 20 to 30 minutes and was focused and demanding. Most questions were Salesforce-specific rather than generic coding. I discussed configurations, flows, and the structure of test classes. They also asked about Apex batch classes, including what they are, their methods, and why queueable classes are preferred in some cases. Scheduled classes came up too, alon…
- Infosys Finacle Software Engineer Interview Experience: structured DSA follow-upsInfosys Finacle · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026Offer
I went through a difficult technical interview that ended positively, with an offer. The interviewer was calm and clear, and the questions came with follow-ups instead of being one question after another. The DSA portion was the hardest part for me. It was difficult, but the interviewer was not rushed and followed a structured line of questioning. I left feeling that I had given it everything. Th…
- Infosys Finacle Software Engineer interview with escalating DP and graph questionsInfosys Finacle · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026
My interview started with four questions that ranged from easy to complex. Even the supposedly easy first question involved greedy thinking. The second moved into dynamic programming. The third combined DP with graph-related elements. The fourth was described as extremely hard, which set the tone for the interview. I could not complete everything, and the sequence made me feel they wanted to see…
- Infosys Finacle Software Engineer interview with timed DP and treesInfosys Finacle · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026
My first major round was DSA focused. I had to choose one question from two options and answer it within 30 minutes. The difficulty was high enough that I had to be careful with DP and tree-related problems under time pressure. The technical round then shifted entirely to AI concepts. Moving from DSA to AI so quickly made the process demanding and unusual. I felt the interviewer was checking whet…
- Insulet Software Engineer Interview Experience: smooth start and month-long wait for declineInsulet · Software Engineer · Aug 2026Rejected
I applied online and heard from a recruiter within about a week to arrange an initial phone screen. That led to a technical interview with hiring managers. The communication became unusual afterward because I sent follow-ups to both the hiring manager and the recruiter. I waited just over a month before Workday notified me that I had been declined. The early scheduling had been relatively smooth,…
- Intel Software Engineer Interview Experience: virtual manager panel without semiconductor backgroundIntel · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026Offer
After a recruiter call, the interviews moved quickly but felt structured and organized. About a day before the live session, I got a brief call about my background, with a little casual conversation before the following day's discussions. The next day, I had a virtual interview with the hiring manager and two other managers. It felt professional and straightforward. Each interviewer asked a coupl…
- Jio Platforms Software Engineer interview on ML and deep learningJio Platforms · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026
I had a compact process with one technical round led by a technical manager. The conversation stayed close to my resume, especially the machine-learning and deep-learning topics I had listed. I also got a small set of basic DSA questions. There was a behavioral discussion by the end, so it was not purely technical. The difficulty felt average, though the follow-ups demanded that I be thorough and…
- Kiewit Corporation Software Engineer Interview Experience: Engineering decisions and quality checksKiewit Corporation · Software Engineer · Aug 2026Offer
The process was well managed from the start. A recruiter kept me updated while I discussed my background, previous work, means and methods, outcomes, and how I approach my work. The focus was practical engineering thinking rather than deep coding, with system design, technical due diligence, and QC or QA themes. The process moved faster than I expected. Shortly after the interview, they contacted…
- Kimley-Horn Software Engineer Interview Experience: MEP heat transfer and fluids discussionKimley-Horn · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026Offer
After a recruiter screen, the process felt almost effortless. Soon afterward, I had a relaxed technical-style block that lasted about 1 to 2 hours and involved several interviewers. Most of the conversation was about my background, how my past experience connected to the role, and the technical skills I had actually used. For the MEP track, the discussion focused heavily on heat transfer and flui…
