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LEAP Program - Software Engineer Interview Experience - Boston, Massachusetts

November 1, 2011
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Process

Sent me an email asking if they could give me a call. I hesitate to define the phone call as an interview; they more or less just wanted to see if I was interested.

They invited me to come in to their Boston office for interviews. There were about 8 other candidates, all of them also applying to the software engineering track of the Leap program. There were 3, 30-minute interviews: two were with project managers, and one was with a software engineer.

No technical questions were asked; lots of "What was a time where you took a leadership role?" or "What was one of your hardest obstacles you've overcome?" type questions.

It felt like I was answering the same questions over and over in the 3 different interviews. I talked in depth about projects I have done and some of my favorite CS courses, and that seemed to please the interviewers (and may be why they asked me no technical questions), so I would recommend doing that.

If you are going in for an interview, have examples of when you led a group project ready; you're gonna need them. Also, they gave me a free umbrella, so that's nice.

Questions

A time where you tried and failed? What would you do differently?

A time where you were working in a group and someone was not pulling their weight? How did you handle this?

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