I applied online. I interviewed at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (San Ramon, CA) in Mar 2026
Interview
First, a 1-1 screening, then a group interview. All are technical, and then if you get selected, they invite you for the onsite. Before the on-site, you will have an hour-long interaction with HR. During the on-site day, you need to present your work to the interdisciplinary team, followed by 8-9 interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General Questions. They have some situations and let you think about them.
I interviewed at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance
Interview
Great experience interviewing, thorough questions , personable , took about two weeks start to finish. Phone call, in person panel interview, HR interview. All questions I had were answered thoughtfully
I interviewed at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance
Interview
A call with the hiring manager, a recruiter, and then a 5 hour in-office superday with back-to-back 45 minute meetings. This was great for most of the meetings, with kind and respectful team members, but woefully inadequate for the two meetings evaluating technical abilities. Much of those technical interviews were spent going over my resume line by line asking me about things like "what do you mean you reduced MTTR," talking about personal projects, and the business domain of different projects I've worked on over the years.
The role has been open for a quarter of a year now, despite the tremendous amount of overqualified candidates looking for work. After going through the full interview process I understand why.