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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      16 Apr 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Boston, MA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at 8th Light (Boston, MA) in Jan 2026

      Interview

      1. Basic phone screen with standard questions. 2. A personality survey where they assess if you're a good fit for the team? 2. pair programming interview where I had to parse JSON from an API call in java. To my surprise I had to use my own IDE, which I was not expecting. I don't know if the interviewers are supposed to be difficult to test patience but I was constantly told my implementation was wrong and would not compile despite completing the question successfully. Additionally I was told this was mainly going to be a test TDD principles, and the first thing my interviewer said was that they don't really care about tests. 3. Systems design that was pretty basic, Scheduled for ~90 minutes, but the interviewer cut it off after less than 30. 4. A consultancy interview where they measure how good at face to face communication with the customer you are. This was a strange one that I have not really encountered before. 5. Another call with the recruiter to go over the results of all previous interviews. Personally, I was told that I passed all three real interviews with high praise and should expect an offer letter soon. After around a month the recruiter checked in and said they were going to send an offer soon. After another month they said they had a position ready for me but I had to go through MORE interviews. At this point I had multiple other offers and decided it wasn't worth my time.

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