Virtual Launchpad first, 3 hours of presentations and group exercises then two interviews with a manager and director, behavioral and a simple profit case about whether to cut costs or grow revenue. I prepped for way harder cases so it was kind of a relief, declined because I got another offer I wanted more
Questions Asked
1.“A telecom company's EBITDA margin declined 3 points this year. Walk me through your diagnostic approach”
2.“A major Canadian bank is seeing 20% fewer branch visitors year-over-year. Whats driving it and what should they do?”
D2L
Software Developer
Kitchener, ON
Winter 2025No Offer
University of Alberta · Computing Science
2nd year · 2.5-2.8 GPA · 0 past internships
Average Interview
TechnicalVirtual
Recruiter call then product interview about improving onboarding for one of their tools then scenario round going from research to MVP. Knowing D2L products helped a lot I referenced Brightspace a few times
Questions Asked
1.“Whats the difference between structured and unstructured logging?”
Definity Insurance
Software Developer
Waterloo, ON
Summer 2025No Offer
Simon Fraser University · Computing Science
2nd year · 2.5-2.8 GPA · 0 past internships
Easy Interview
Virtual
One interview through university portal. 30 min with the manager, behavioral and resume review
Questions Asked
1.“What is a connection pool and why does it matter for database performance”
Adobe
Software Engineer
San Jose, CA
Summer 2025No Offer
Simon Fraser University · Computing Science
2nd year · 2.9-3.2 GPA · 0 past internships
Hard Interview
Technical
HackerRank OA easy/medium. panel was 45 min of DP, two problems one after another
Questions Asked
1.“Design a file storage service like Dropbox or Google Drive.”
Canada Life
Software Developer
Winnipeg, MB
Summer 2026Accepted
University of Alberta · Computing Science
2nd year · 0 past internships
Easy Interview
BehavioralConversationalVirtual
Career centre leader and HR person behavioral stuff and detailed resume walkthrough with questions about hobbies and extracurriculars, that was new. Casual overall just be confident
Questions Asked
1.“Describe a time you had to choose between code quality and hitting a deadline”
2.“What's the difference between a callback and a promise in JavaScript?”