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Applications Developer Interview Experience - United States

June 24, 2023
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process is very bad. I had an interview with the tech lead. He did not even open his camera (and did not apologize) but asked me to keep my camera on. He asked me things not mentioned in the service description, specifically related to configurations on services such as Java and AWS. It felt like a school exam. Additionally, he asked me to screen share and open my local IDE to run a program. I would please request Discover folks to spend some money on a Hackerrank or Coderpad subscription. The tech lead was muting himself and was off camera. His speech was not clear. I had a very bad experience. I would never recommend this process unless you don't have any other option.

Questions

What are new things in Java 8, asked in detail about some of the concepts. Asked about AWS S3 configuration. I don't know what they are even interviewing for. Please hire a sophomore student; they will be up to your expectations where you don't ask any logic and ask all theoretical questions.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Discover Financial Applications Developer role in United States.

Success Rate

25%
Pass Rate

Discover Financial's interview process for their Applications Developer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral0%
Negative50%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Discover Financial's Applications Developer interview process in United States.

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