I received an employee referral for a new-graduate Software Engineering role that had just opened up. This position was not through campus recruiting.

A couple days after I applied, an HR Recruiter called me to set up a phone interview later that week with an Engineering Hiring Manager.

The phone interview was easy and consisted of technical, behavioral, and project-based questions.

After passing the phone interview, I was asked to come on-site. I chose to set up my on-site interview exactly a week from my phone interview.

The on-site interview consisted of three 30-minute interviews:

• The first was with an Engineering Manager.
• The second was with a Senior Architect.
• The third was with a Software Engineer.

At the end of the three interviews, the Hiring Manager who spoke to me on the phone scheduled a 15-minute meeting with me. She told me she was ready to offer me the position on the spot.

After accepting, I met with my HR Recruiter for 15 minutes going over the details and official paperwork.

Do you understand what the job you applied for is asking of you?

Do you understand the specific Dell Product/Division on the job description? Explain.

What ideas can you bring to Dell to make it a better company?

In-depth project-based questions:

• Explain all the technologies you used in project [x] and how they work.
• Tell me about a passion project.

Group project questions:

• Tell me about a difficult group project.

In-depth Java Questions:

• Explain Inheritance, Polymorphism, the keyword 'static', Instantiating Objects, ArrayLists, LinkedLists, REST, and API Calling.

Find the first non-repeating character in a string.