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      Application Engineer Interview

      2 Feb 2024
      Anonymous employee
      Malvern, PA

      Other Application Engineer interview reviews for Vanguard

      Application Engineer Interview

      21 Apr 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Vanguard

      Interview

      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 3 weeks. I interviewed at Vanguard (Malvern, PA) in Dec 2023

      Interview

      I applied online, then was prompted to take an online assessment, which consisted of some multiple choice questions and 2 Leetcode easy/mediums. A recruiter called me two days later and we had some introductions, ~15 mins of conversation. At the end of the conversation she scheduled a virtual interview day for a week or two later. At the interview day, it started with a group meet and greet, then they emailed us all a problem to work on for 30 minutes before our next interview. I then had the technical interview, and the interviewer didn't actually ask me about the assignment and instead asked me about AWS, which is on my resumé. The interviewer seemed to really value my ability to intuit security/privacy and was less concerned with my coding experience. She directly asked me if I felt capable of doing the role described, to which I said yes. I then had the behavioral, which was with a different person. The questions were pretty standard, so make sure to use the STAR format for responses. That was very easy. Two days later the original recruiter told me I had done well but that I may be a better fit for a different team, and she scheduled a meet and greet with me and the team lead for the other team. Him and I met two days later and it was very informal/conversational. I had an offer two days later.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Tell me how you would use different roles within the context of a DynamoDB table. Tell me about a time where you pushed a coworker to do more than they thought they were capable of.
      Answer question

      Application Engineer Interview

      1 Feb 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Malvern, PA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      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.
      Answer question

      Applications Engineer Interview

      12 Sept 2025
      Anonymous employee
      Malvern, PA
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Vanguard (Malvern, PA)

      Interview

      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
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