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Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience

October 1, 2017
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Personally, I found it very disorganized.

The first interview was very straightforward. It was a phone interview with a man and a woman who asked various behavioral questions, things on my resume, and also some Java questions.

However, after that, I didn't hear back from them for about 3 weeks. I emailed them to see what next steps would be because I thought I did pretty well on that first interview.

I got an email back saying they were working on it. Then, about a week later, this woman from HR kept calling me to talk about internships at Prudential, which I thought was a miscommunication because I had already had a first interview.

When I called her back, she tried to schedule me for a Super Day in Newark in 3 days. I was not okay with this because I would have to travel and miss school, and it was really sprung on me.

I told her to please email me because she DID have my email, but she kept calling me about 5 times about interviews until we decided to have a day where I would have 3 Skype Interviews.

The first interview was technical and asked about finding duplicates in an array. The second and third were behavioral.

Overall, I thought I did really well on them, but I did not get an offer.

Questions

Find the duplicates in an array.

What is a class?

What is the difference between Arrays and LinkedLists?

Describe the difference between a Map and a Hash Map.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 24 interview experiences for the Prudential Financial Software Engineer (Internship) role in United States.

Success Rate

17%
Pass Rate

Prudential Financial's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive58%
Neutral29%
Negative13%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Prudential Financial's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in United States.

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