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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

September 1, 2023
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The process is quite easy. The first round starts with an HR call. Then, after matching the skills and requirements, your application gets forwarded for another screening round where a technical manager shows up and asks you questions related to Java, Spring Boot, AWS, & Kafka.

Also, a few questions related to projects were asked. After passing this round, you schedule for three different interviews with all senior devs.

Two rounds are based on behavioral and a few, but easy, technical questions. Most of the questions are based on your resume.

The last interview was a coding round. For me, it was fully system design. I was unprepared for this round, so I could not go through it.

Overall, it was a nice experience. The interviewers were really nice and helped a lot through the process.

Questions

HR Q. What tech stacks do you use? Relocation? Compensation? Sponsorship? Etc.

Dev Round Q. Questions related to OOP, Spring Boot, Database, AWS.

Dev Round 2. Q. Fully behavioral: What were the challenging projects? Etc. And some tech-related questions revolving around Java & Spring Boot.

Dev Round 3. Q. Same as 2.

Final Coding Round. I was asked to design a cloud system that is highly scalable, fault-tolerant, resilient, & secure.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 8 interview experiences for the Discover Financial Senior Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

13%
Pass Rate

Discover Financial's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive63%
Neutral0%
Negative38%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Discover Financial's Senior Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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