They claimed they needed contact software engineers on a contract basis, but after 18 months, it was a mandatory layoff followed by a 6-month waiting period. The pay rate was below average for a software contract engineer. The panel interview was disorganized, and all they asked were a series of closed-ended questions about C++ and general random software concepts, such as multithreading.

If you memorize a C++ book and buzzwords in the job description, you might pass the interview. If one of your answers doesn't exactly fit what they are thinking, you fail the interview. If this is how Wells Fargo treats software developers, I am glad I got turned down for the job and not working at Wells Fargo.

But my best advice to pass the interviews there is to memorize a good C++ book well before the interview and brush up on your computer science fundamentals or whatever buzzwords are in the job description. Be prepared for answering "closed-ended" memorization questions.

Multiple inheritance questions and obscure, rarely used C++ syntax.