Full Stack Engineer Interview Experience - Chicago, Illinois
Process
The interview was verbal, aiming to understand basic internal implementations of React, Spring Boot, and AWS. There was no coding involved. I would consider it a useless interview, as it did not focus on testing programming skills. It was just a bunch of questions from Javatpoint, administered by a middle-aged Indian man. These companies need to improve their interview standards!
Questions
- What testing framework do we use in React?
- How does @annotation in Spring work internally?
- How do I share an S3 bucket across different regions?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Discover Financial Full Stack Engineer role in Chicago, Illinois.
Success Rate
Discover Financial's interview process for their Full Stack Engineer roles in Chicago, Illinois is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Discover Financial's Full Stack Engineer interview process in Chicago, Illinois.
Discover Financial Work Experiences
- 4.0Low Stress, Low LadderFull Stack Engineer • Former EmployeeRiverwoods, Illinois, United StatesMarch 4, 2024Pros: Not very stressful. Friendly people.Cons: Engineers felt pretty low on the ladder.
- 4.0Great Team, Good CultureSenior Associate Applications Engineer • Current EmployeeChicago, Illinois, United StatesSeptember 8, 2025Pros: Nice team and work culture.Cons: No cons; everything is good.
- 4.0Great company to work forSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeChicago, Illinois, United StatesSeptember 7, 2025Pros: Culture here is very relaxed compared to other companies. They place a lot of emphasis on your development and learning as much as possible when you start.Cons: Depending on what team you land on, you can get stuck doing QA/DevOps all the time, which is pretty boring. Essentially, you just write and run tests all the time, which isn't really satisfying like writing actual code. If you want to do dev work, you have to find the right team spot.
