Interview experiences

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Morgan Stanley·Interviewed Q4 2026Rejected

Software Engineer

The process started with a virtual screening run by the vendor that placed me in this contract role. It covered

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Abnormal AI·Interviewed Q4 2026Accepted offer

Software Engineer

The process had seven stages and by the end I was properly worn out, though I'd still call the experience a good one.

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Arm·Interviewed Q4 2026Rejected

Software Engineer

The moment that stuck with me was being asked to write code for a digital electronics problem. I had prepared for a

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Microsoft·Interviewed Q4 2026Declined offer

Software Engineer

The part that surprised me most was how attached some interviewers were to their own approach. The first round was DSA,

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Amazon·Interviewed Q4 2026Rejected after onsite

Solutions Architect

I flew into Seattle for what turned out to be one long day of three in-person whiteboard sessions. The breaks were few,

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Virtusa·Interviewed Q4 2026Rejected

Software Engineer

HR told me the first round would be a live coding session, so I went in expecting to share my screen and work through a

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Stripe·Interviewed Q4 2026Rejected after final round

Software Engineer

I went through the Stripe loop this month, my second time with them (the first was about three years ago), and it ended

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Tech Mahindra·Interviewed Q4 2026Accepted offer

Software Engineer

This was a campus recruitment drive, and the process had five rounds for me. The online assessment was easy to moderate

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Wipro·Interviewed Q4 2026Rejected

Senior Technical Writer

I didn't get an offer, but the way this interview unfolded is worth knowing about. The biggest surprise was how much of

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Capgemini·Interviewed Q4 2026Declined offer

Software Engineer

The funnel was the most striking part of my process. Roughly 1,700 people got through the initial shortlisting, and by

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Optiver·Interviewed Q4 2026Rejected

Software Engineer

The part of Optiver's process that caught me off guard was the technical round, which wasn't a typical live-coding

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Siemens·Interviewed Q4 2026Rejected

Software Engineer

The first hurdle was a single coding assessment, after which I had two interview rounds. The technical round was the

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Qualcomm·Interviewed Q4 2026Rejected

Software Engineer

The part that confused me most was the recruiter's pair of emails. One set up a meeting with the hiring manager, and

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Cognizant·Interviewed Q4 2026Accepted offer

Software Engineer

I'd describe my Cognizant software engineer interview as easy, though I still prepared for it as if it weren't. It

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Optiver·Interviewed Q4 2026Rejected

Quantitative Analyst

The part that caught me off guard was how much of the process was about speed. The online assessment had tricky

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Jane Street·Interviewed Q4 2026Rejected

Quantitative Analyst

I went into the HackerRank online assessment expecting a coding screen, so the first surprise was that I never had to

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Stripe·Interviewed Q4 2026Rejected after onsite

L3 Software Development Engineer

The bug squash round is the one I keep replaying. I was handed a Google code repository where the unit tests were

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Capital One·Interviewed Q4 2026Rejected

Software Engineer

The part of this loop that stuck with me most was being handed someone else's code and asked to find what was wrong

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Ethos Life·Interviewed Q4 2026Rejected

Software Engineer

I went into this one expecting a normal back-and-forth, and the interviewer was not that. He was based in Singapore and