Interview process was pretty straight forward. Three rounds with the first being a general HR, the second was a coding assessment, and the third was a person from the division or team you might be placed in.
Accepted offer
Positive experience
Easy interview
Application
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Vanguard (Philadelphia, PA) in Oct 2022
Interview
Applied for an entry-level Application Engineer position. Had a really wonderful experience with the recruiter. Started with an online assessment and then move on to a 30-45 mins phone screen. The next step is a 3 hours long final interview consists a technical interview, behavioral interview, and developer chat. The technical interview consists of multiple OOP questions and technical behavioral questions, then will move on to a case study that was given 30 minutes prior to the interview and it is more likely a system design question. At the end of the technical interview, you will be asked a very easy leetcode problem to see if there is fundamental of data structure knowledge. The behavioral interview mostly consists of technical behavioral questions with some case behavioral questions. Developer chat is those senior developers showing their "muscle". Everyone is very nice here and overall really an easy interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
OOP problem Stack A case study is easy, prepare them with fundamentals of system design. The Leetcode type problem is a super easy level, looking to see if you can make it more efficient
I applied through university. I interviewed at Vanguard (Malvern, PA) in Dec 2025
Interview
sent me an email with an online technical, had a few mc questions and a few leetcode coding questions. then i had to wait a few days and they called me to schedule the final interview. during the final interview, there were 2 rounds each were an hour long. one part was the technical and the second part was behavioral. during the technical, there's 2 problems. one was like a system design and the other was another leetcode problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me about a time you received feedback.
tell me about a time you worked in a team with conflicting ideas, how did you resolve it.
It was ok nothing more than a behavioral interview and then a case study on a specific system them wanted us to create. After was just regular conversation about experience
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time you had to overcome challenges and what did you do to make sure those challenges were mitigated next time
