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Software Engineer Interview Experience

February 11, 2017
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Qualtrics seems to have a ton going for them. Appears to be an awesome company to work with. However, I was selected to be interviewed with someone who was having just an absolute horrible day and wanted to make mine even worse. He was a software engineer in the company who obviously didn't want to interview anyone that day.

The interview started with, "taking 5-10 minutes on your resume and behavior." He only had one question: how could I have gotten a better GPA (apparently 3.5 is not enough)? No behavior questions.

Moved straight onto the first coding problem. It was not clear what he wanted. I came up with solution after solution, to which he would only say, "Nope, not how I would do it," and offered very little help. After that question, he legitimately told me, "Well, to be honest, after that question, I'm finding it hard to believe you when you say Java is your strongest language."

I nearly hung up out of shock, but I decided to push on anyway. Nearly aced the next Java code problem. Unfortunately, it still wasn't enough to get me to the next step.

Overall, just a horrible experience with an interviewer, and I've had many positive experiences with interviewers in the past.

Questions

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 133 interview experiences for the Qualtrics Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

14%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive46%
Neutral28%
Negative26%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Qualtrics's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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