I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Autodesk in Nov 2024
Interview
Round 1: Recruiter goes into background and details expectations.
Round 2: Hiring manager discusses work and digs into background, with a few technical questions.
Round 3: Senior Principal Engineer delves deeper into resume experience, system design, and LeetCode medium questions.
Round 4: Senior Principal Engineer focuses on resume experience and engineering etiquette and job related technical questions.
Pro Tip make sure you go through the resume and prepare well what ever you have done.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you use AWS lambda, what is the most difficult thing you have done in your job, Leetcode medium
4 levels for senior software engineer, it is good, more involved technical questions and coding rounds, panel was good asking different set of questions, and also have been interviewing different projects took the interview call.
My interview opens with a discussion on technical decisions. Instead of just "What is a class?", the interviewer asks: "Why choose C++ over a managed language like Java or Python for your last project?"I focus my answer on predictable performance and fine-grained memory control. I explain that for our low-latency data processor, the overhead of a Garbage Collector (GC) was unacceptable. This leads naturally into a discussion on RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization). I explain that by tying resource lifespan to object lifetime, C++ allows for deterministic cleanup without the need for manual free() calls or a GC.
Application
I interviewed at Autodesk (Kraków)
Interview
4 stages, 2 of them - coding interview, very similar, 3 and 4 - behavioral interview. Also require to enter your data several times (one of them - to a PDF file which has some bugs. Very "serious" approach.
