I applied online. I interviewed at Dun & Bradstreet (Austin, TX)
Interview
I had a good conversation with the recruiter on the phone but when I came in for the interview it was painful. They looked down their nose at me the whole time; one guy was outright snotty with me over the fact that I was looking for a new job while still working at my current place. The other questions revolved around stumping me over the stuff that I said upfront that I didn't have experience with, and some were just kind of odd and threw me off because I didn't know what he was fishing for.
It's never fun to have a bad interview, but I really came away thinking I'd hate to have these people as coworkers. I usually interview really well, too, and ended up with a couple of offers from other places, but I just got a bad vibe off them and would have been hesitant to accept if I did get an offer through some miracle. The entire thing was awkward and uncomfortable. I've never had an interview where the people showed obvious disdain for me before; it was like they decided they hated me before I even set foot in the place. It's was for the software part of their business, and I think they're trying to give the impression of having a culture like a modern tech company, but the atmosphere was like how I imagine IBM in 1983. Definitely not what I'm looking for in a software company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's interesting about an API? (Phrased exactly like that.)
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Dun & Bradstreet
Interview
Somewhat disappointing experience. Interviewer seemed disinterested and did not engage much. Spent most of his time replying to emails and IMs on his laptop. Overly technical interviewer asked about specific data structures and sorting algorithms, but would not provide any additional information or context on the use-case which it would be applied to, or what problem it was attempting to solve.
You start with an initial phone screen with recruiter.
Then you move forwards to the Tech interview with 2 engineers.
The last interview is the Behavioral & Culture Fit interview with Hiring Manager or Director.
Offer extended.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Live coding challenge where I had to create some react components and make them communicate with each other. Not that difficult but they provide you with starter boilerplate which was kinda junky for what the exercise is trying to prove.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Dun & Bradstreet with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 44% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 9 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Dun & Bradstreet overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Dun & Bradstreet as a Software Engineer according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 32%
Presentation: 18%
Group panel interview: 14%
Drug test: 9%
One on one interview: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
Personality test: 5%
Skills test: 5%
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