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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Austin, Texas

December 1, 2017
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Recruiter, phone interview, and onsite.

The phone interview was a shared screen coding interview.

The onsite was a 9-hour panel-type interview. The interviews covered a variety of topics: past experiences, debugging, coding, and design.

I have successfully interviewed with many companies, and their experiences have been great. However, I cannot say the same for Indeed.

Some interviewers did not seem interested in the process and were overly hostile. For example, one interviewer had a "self-righteous" or "I'm right, you're wrong" attitude. It was a bit uncomfortable, but I managed to get through it.

I didn't feel some had the correct training to conduct interviews as well. In particular, one interviewer stared at his/her computer the whole time and was a bit hostile once I started asking questions. I wasn't sure whether he/she was writing down everything I was saying or fixing a high-severity issue during the interview.

While some interviewers were great, the negative red flags that stood out during some of the interviews outweighed the positives. At the end of the day, I was not sure if I wanted the job if these were the type of people I would be working with.

Questions

Design Indeed.com

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 42 interview experiences for the Indeed Software Engineer role in Austin, Texas.

Success Rate

21%
Pass Rate

Indeed's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Austin, Texas is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive64%
Neutral17%
Negative19%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Indeed's Software Engineer interview process in Austin, Texas.

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