I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Fannie Mae (Plano, TX) in Apr 2022
Interview
3 rounds of Technical interview and followed by 1 round of behavioral interview. My take was, if your interview goes well, it will be a quick process. First round of interview was for screening purpose, whether you will be pushed to the next process or not. It was an hour interview with a Tech lead not necessarily from the hiring team. 2nd round was also very technical with principal engineer (mostly architecture/design) and very much oriented to cloud (AWS to be very specific). Next week 2 rounds of interview back to back 2 hours. 3 rd round was again very technical question and answer session. They have list of questions and sample answer, and they go by them only. 4th round was behavioral round. Mostly explain situation type questions.
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AWS - lambda, kinesis, RDS, resiliency, caching, K8
JAVA - spring boot, spring cloud, scoping, String, collection
Angular - single page application. etc.
It was a multi-step process where you first had a phone screen, meet with several team members, other interdepartmental stakeholders, and then the leadership. It was about a 2.5 month process due to scheduling.
I applied online. I interviewed at Fannie Mae (Washington, DC) in Dec 2025
Interview
Initial recruiter call, followed by two 30-minute Zoom interviews with the managers. The process was very accommodating, with questions focused on how relevant my experience is to the role. No technical questions -primarily conceptual and experience-based.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked how I handle completely new situations and adapt to unfamiliar challenges.
In late 2022, for a lead role in finance, I had a technical focused interview and a behavioral focused interview, as first round. Then the next/last round was with the Director of the team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In my behavioral, they asked for me to give an analogy to simply explain to business what RCSA was (risk position) and how it works.
