I was contacted by a third-party recruiter for the position of Senior Software Engineer (Springboot). I got the first round of interviews where I was told that it is going to be a resume walkthrough but the interviewer asked me to code though he was very helpful. After this round, I was told that they won't be moving forward
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a code in any language to calculate the square root of a number without the in-built function
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Freddie Mac in Mar 2025
Interview
First round of general discussion with the recuiter. Second round of interview regarding technical expertise and resume with sr managers. Third round of technical interview with a panel of managers and sr tech leads.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lot of general technical questions related to my job experience. General Questions related to Spring, Middleware, Design, database, Unix etc. They tried to cover wide array of topics from software design, Performance, database, spring, Java, Unix commands etc
Basic scenario question on setting up new service for their usecase related to application. He was expecting some answer but he didn’t agreed to anything. Finally didn’t understand what he wanted and the time was over
First round interview, heavy on technical questions, around 20 questions were asked, mainly Java and python, and one pair coding problem that you need to solve on your own IDE.
Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Freddie Mac with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 9 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Freddie Mac overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Freddie Mac as a Senior Software Engineer according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 28%
Group panel interview: 17%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 11%
One on one interview: 11%
Background check: 6%
Drug test: 6%
Personality test: 6%
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