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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      11 Sept 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Discover

      Interview

      Applied for job I was well qualified for. 3-4 weeks later I get call from recruiter. Seems interested and setup first tech 30 min interview. Goes well and informs me as such and wants to continue. Contact then stops completely for a week. I sent multiple emails following up. Finally hear back and they want to move forward a week later (2 weeks after getting positive feedback). Come to find out they just wanted to promote internally and the position I applied for was closed but they have another one they want me for (same position but different opening number). I then do the next 4 hour interview block with 3 manager interviews all asking the exact same behavior/situation questions. Had one tech interview where he just fired question non-stop for an hour about React and Java, which I had plenty of experience to fall back on. I felt I did pretty well. To no ones surprise, I didn't hear back from recruiter at all afterwards. I was done trying to work with the recruiter at this point and I didn't bother to follow up since I was juggling between 2 other offers that were about 20% higher than this position shows on Glassdoor. I still would have considered the job due to benefits but that was never an option.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How would you troubleshoot slowness in an application? How would improve page load speeds?
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      Discover response
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      Thank you for sharing your interview experience with us. We want everyone to feel fully supported through our recruitment process, so we're truly sorry to hear that your experience didn't reflect that. While we've passed your feedback along to the director of our technology talent team, we'd love to connect with you personally. We hope you feel comfortable emailing us at careers@discover.com. Thank you again for your feedback.

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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      8 Feb 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Chicago, IL
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Discover (Chicago, IL) in Jan 2023

      Interview

      15 mins round of HR initial screening 1 hr technical interview with Manager HR asked for availability for 5 interviews but after one week they said they are reviewing their head count and not moving forward

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Some technical question and behavioral questions
      Answer question

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