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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      8 Mar 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Pearson in Feb 2025

      Interview

      I was originally contacted by a recruiter for the position, and we set up an interview. I felt something was a bit off as no hackerrank or any type of coding assessment was sent for a software engineering role, but I went ahead and agreed to interview. Before the interview, I asked the interviewer what style of questions I was to expect, and I was given very vague anwsers and finally was told this was a one round interview with scenario based questions. This was not the case at all. During the interview, I was not given any chance to write any code, talk about system design, frameworks, tooling, and was instead asked a few behavioral questions - you would think that, during a software engineering interview, the focus would be on writing code or discussing system design concepts, especially since I had solved 1300 leetcode questions, which was public information, had 3700 github contributions, and have a channel dedicated to solutions and am also a MS in CS student with a 4.0 gpa - we could have just glanced at my portfolio to see the kind of motivation I have. I was not even selected to move forward, which I feel like I was not given a fair chance to demonstrate my skills at all, which is just disrespectful and lacking in empathy. When I asked about feedback, I was told that I didn't have passion for AI, which was not on the job description or my resume or anything close to what the recruiter had mentioned, and I was also told that this would be a one round interview, which was different from what the interviewer told me - that he would select candidates to move forward near the end of my interview. If you think that someone who has the skills to solve 1300 leetcode questions is not a good fit for your company and did not even give him a chance to write code for a software engineering interview, this is not fair, and I really would encourage a more scientific approach here.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What hobbies do you have, What side projects do you have
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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      7 May 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Colombo, Western
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Pearson (Colombo, Western) in Apr 2026

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      13 Apr 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Pearson in Feb 2026

      Interview

      First had a screening call with a Pearson recruiter. Technical interview was a deep technical conversation about resume and previous work experience with Tech Lead and Senior Software Engineer. I was expecting live coding based on conversations with the recruiter but it was largely just technical discussions.

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      7 Aug 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Washington, DC
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Pearson (Washington, DC) in Jul 2025

      Interview

      Initial recruiter screen for about 15 minutes. Then 1 hour panel interview (when it said only one person would be on the call in the inital invite), with technical questions on stuff on your resume, brain teaser, leetcode (didn't have time for this part), and behavioral/cultural questions at the end. Got ghosted after this

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Technical questions on technologies listed on your resume
      Answer question

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