one of the best interview processes I've been through, pair programming was chill and the engineer was super helpful not adversarial at all and life story was actually kind of nice to do. I ended up declining because I got a US offer that paid way more but I'd come back and interview at amazon again in a heartbeat, they seem to care about who you are as a person
Questions Asked
1.“What makes Amazon stand out to you as an employer?”
2.“Implement pow(x, n) without using built-in power functions”
Databricks
Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Summer 2026Accepted
University of Ottawa · Software Engineering
3rd year · 2 past internships
Hard Interview
TechnicalMultiple roundsBehavioral
Failed the online assessment lol, took too long on the first coding problem and ran out of time on the second one so got the rejection email a few days later, no feedback
Questions Asked
1.“What do you know about Databricks that made you apply?”
2.“Design a hotel or vacation booking platform, focus on concurrency and consistency”
Meta
Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Fall 2025No Offer
University of British Columbia · Software Engineering
3rd year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 1 past internship
Easy Interview
TechnicalMultiple rounds
coding was straightforward and interview was mostly about past projects and coding fundamentals everyone gets asked
Questions Asked
1.“Tell me about a time you refactored legacy code. What was your approach and what did you learn?”
2.“Implement a stack that supports push pop and getMin in O(1) space”
Cisco
Network Engineer
San Jose, CA
Winter 2026Accepted
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Software Engineering
4th year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 3 past internships
Hard Interview
TechnicalMultiple roundsVirtual
HackerRank had DSA and MCQs on OOPs OS networking, passed that then first technical was trees and BFS then second technical covered Java specifics like functional interfaces and exception handling and never got to HR
Questions Asked
1.“How does BGP work and when would you configure it?”
2.“Tell me about a time you had to explain a technical network problem to a non-technical audience.”
Capital One
Software Engineer
Toronto, ON
Summer 2026No Offer
University of Ottawa · Software Engineering
3rd year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 2 past internships
Hard Interview
TechnicalMultiple roundsStressfulCase study
CodeSignal OA first, 4 questions in 70 minutes. Third one was doable but the last one involved matrices and was tough. Power Day was like 4 hours of interviews in a row. Had a case interview about whether to drop a credit card fee, actually interesting, then system design was designing some monitoring dashboard. Behavioral was STAR stuff. Just a long day overall
Questions Asked
1.“What's the difference between cookies and localStorage for storing session data?”
Telus
Software Developer
Ottawa, ON
Winter 2026No Offer
University of Ottawa · Software Engineering
4th year · 3.7+ GPA · 3 past internships
Average Interview
TechnicalBehavioralVirtualUnexpected Questions
Aptitude test and pair coding with SQL window functions then a general fit interview then final rounds about how your work impacts customer experience. The fit interview was a unique round where they really wanted to understand your background and motivations
Questions Asked
1.“What is eventual consistency in distributed systems?”
Infosys
Data Architect
Summer 2026Accepted
IISc Bangalore · Software Engineering
4th year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 0 past internships
TechnicalMultiple rounds
Multiple rounds each getting harder as you go first round just online assessment then HR basic situation question you need to show thinking process. Then tough data questions about system design and security could not answer them all but still got offered.
Qualcomm
Software Engineer
San Diego, CA
Summer 2026Pending Outcome
University of Texas at Austin · Software Engineering
2nd year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 1 past internship
Average Interview
TechnicalVirtual
OA graph traversal and hashmap both medium, interview 30 min behavioral 30 min coding had STAR stories for customer obsession and bias for action and coding was two pointers straightforward if you prep the LPs
Questions Asked
1.“Tell me about a time you worked across teams to ship a shared API or integration”
2.“What's the difference between quick sort and merge sort?”
Enbridge
Data Analyst
Calgary, AB
Winter 2025No Offer
University of Calgary · Software Engineering
3rd year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 1 past internship
Easy Interview
BehavioralPre-recordedVirtualMultiple rounds
5 questions on a HireVue with a lot of safety related behavioral questions even for a data role then a panel on Teams with 3 people asking STAR stuff and basic Python and SQL questions, make sure you know Enbridge's core values because they ask about them
Questions Asked
1.“Given a sudden spike in a key metric how do you root-cause it?”
2.“What tools do you typically use for data visualization and why?”
RBC
Software Developer
Ottawa, ON
Summer 2026Accepted
University of Ottawa · Software Engineering
3rd year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 1 past internship
Easy Interview
TechnicalVirtual
90 min pair programming that was collaborative, hash map and recursion stuff then a life story interview where they ask what drives you and it all felt natural
Questions Asked
1.“What excites you most about the opportunity at RBC?”
2.“Explain how database indexes improve query performance”
Amazon
DevOps
Summer 2025Accepted
University of Waterloo · Software Engineering
5th year · 3.7+ GPA · 3 past internships
Pre-recordedIn-PersonConversational
3 rounds total including pre screen, last round in-person was super nervous for it but they were very nice (2 people interviewing me) and pretty much just walked me through my resume and cover letter before talking about the team and work culture
RBC
Data Engineering
Winter 2026No Offer
McMaster University · Software Engineering
3rd year · 3.7+ GPA · 1 past internship
TechnicalMultiple roundsPre-recorded
First round pre recorded then one more round with hiring manager asked about basic technicals (SQL, Github, CI/CD)
Ericsson
Software Developer
Ottawa, ON
Fall 2025Accepted
University of Ottawa · Software Engineering
2nd year · 2.9-3.2 GPA · 0 past internships
Average Interview
TechnicalVirtualFast process
No take home OA, different. Technical interview with two engineers, DSA questions in C++ or Java, one on graph traversal and one on string manipulation. Also questions about network protocol experience
Questions Asked
1.“Describe a time you had to deliver a complex feature solo without much guidance”
2.“What is a hash collision and how does a hash map handle it?”
Equifax
Software Developer
Toronto, ON
Summer 2024No Offer
McMaster University · Software Engineering
3rd year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 2 past internships
Easy Interview
TechnicalBehavioralConversational
Relaxed interview, first 10 minutes they just explained the role and the rules then mostly behavioral with two technical questions at the end about coding experience and data analysis methods. The current state of the Canadian economy came up too, more of a chat than an interview.
Questions Asked
1.“Whats a closure in JavaScript or Python?”
Capgemini
Software Developer
Toronto, ON
Fall 2025No Offer
Toronto Metropolitan University · Software Engineering
2nd year · 2.9-3.2 GPA · 3 past internships
Average Interview
TechnicalBehavioralMultiple roundsVirtual
Java API optimization question in the technical round. HR first, then the technical with a team lead who also gave me a medium LeetCode problem i think couldve been easy but idk. Last round was behavioral and they had questions about a time I dealt with a difficult team member and how I'd handle conflicting requirements from two stakeholders. Good interviewers
Questions Asked
1.“What is a microservices architecture and what are its main trade-offs?”
2.“Whats the purpose of a linter in a development workflow?”
Hydro-Quebec
Software Developer
Montreal, QC
Winter 2026Accepted
McGill University · Software Engineering
3rd year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 1 past internship
Easy Interview
VirtualResume Review
Resume questions and what I was building in school. They wanted to know why I was interested in energy as a software person. Answered in both French and English. Easy process
Questions Asked
1.“What excites you most about the opportunity at Hydro-Quebec?”
2.“What's the difference between a hash map and a tree map?”
Atlassian
Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Summer 2026No Offer
Drexel University · Software Engineering
3rd year · 2.9-3.2 GPA · 1 past internship
Average Interview
TechnicalBehavioralSlow processVirtual
online assesment was two mediums, coding round over Zoom.Values interview was chill,
Questions Asked
1.“Find the maximum sum of any contiguous subarray”
FreshBooks
Software Developer
Toronto, ON
Winter 2026No Offer
University of Guelph · Software Engineering
2nd year · 2.9-3.2 GPA · 0 past internships
Easy Interview
TechnicalBehavioralVirtualMultiple rounds
Not super deep technically but they cared a lot about communication. First round was a relaxed HR call. Second had two interviewers covering REST API concepts and a teamwork question
Questions Asked
1.“Describe a time you disagreed with a technical direction your team was taking”
Accenture
Software Developer
Vancouver, BC
Summer 2026No Offer
University of Victoria · Software Engineering
2nd year · 2.9-3.2 GPA · 0 past internships
Easy Interview
TechnicalBehavioralVirtual
Light coding and system design, nothing crazy. Generic thanks but no thanks email a week later
Questions Asked
1.“What's the difference between a binary tree and a binary search tree?”
Lightspeed
Software Developer
Montreal, QC
Summer 2026Accepted
McGill University · Software Engineering
3rd year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 1 past internship
Average Interview
TechnicalMultiple roundsVirtual
Talent partner call, then a team interview about collaboration.Take home project after that took about 3 hours, then reviewed it on a call. 22 days from apply to offer. Montreal office.
Questions Asked
1.“How do you approach a large, unfamiliar codebase you need to contribute to quickly?”
Atlassian
Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Summer 2025Declined Offer
University of Waterloo · Software Engineering
4th year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 3 past internships
Average Interview
TechnicalBehavioralMultiple rounds
Values interview was the best interview experience I had all recruiting cycle. Three rounds over about a month, OA then Zoom coding then the values round. Got the offer but already accepted somewhere else
Questions Asked
1.“Tell me about a time you had to make hard prioritization calls on a time-constrained project”
2.“Given a sorted rotated array find a target value in O(log n)”