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Senior Principal Software Engineer – IT Interview Experience - Chicago, Illinois

September 1, 2021
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process is a bit flawed.

They contacted me after almost two months of the application.

The interviewer was from a DBA background, and the interview was for an application developer's/architect's role.

Most of the questions the interviewer focused on were off-topic and related to his own personal skillsets, not much related to the job description.

There are 12-15 different skillsets in the JD, but the interviewer focused only on 2-3 skillsets that were related to his own. A few other questions were from Google searches, and the interviewer had no knowledge outside what was written on the website he was looking into.

I found a huge knowledge gap between the job description and the panelist. Dell should do a better job picking its interviewers, especially for critical and highly experienced roles.

Questions

Mostly off-topic questions, distantly related to the job description.

He did not cover 80% of the job description.

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Dell's interview process for their Senior Principal Software Engineer – IT roles in Chicago, Illinois is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Dell's Senior Principal Software Engineer – IT interview process in Chicago, Illinois.

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