I applied through university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Metron, Inc. (Reston, VA) in Nov 2025
Interview
First had an 1.5 hour online interview, 30 minutes with HR and 1 hr with a technical software engineer. The engineer asked me about my resume / experiences for 30 minutes and then pulled up a CoderPad for me to solve a leetcode style question.
I made it to the final round, which was a 5-hour in person series of interviews. It began with an tour / QA with the HR head, then two 1-hour long interviews with software engineers - both of which asked me a few questions and then had me do leet code questions on a whiteboard. Then I had a 1 hour interview with two directors, who also talked to me for quite a while about my experiences and also finished with a leet code problem. Then lastly I had a "demo" meeting where a software engineer asked me about a problem and how I would solve it before showing me what the company did to solve it.
I applied online. I interviewed at Metron, Inc. (Reston, VA) in May 2026
Interview
Round 1: Phone Screen with a Recruiter which was ~30 mins
- Mostly behavioral and resume review
- Learning about my background, experience, and fit for the role
- Quick turnaround tho, if they like you, they move you forward
Round 2: Technical Phone Interview (1 hour, via Teams/CoderPath)
- First 30 mins the technical engineer asks about your resume, projects, and experience
- Next 30 mins: Live coding problem on CoderPath (easy-to-medium difficulty)
Problem types: Math-based algorithms (Fibonacci, Collatz sequence, clock angles), array manipulation, tree traversal, base conversion, cipher problems
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Application
I applied through university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Metron, Inc. (Reston, VA) in Sept 2024
Interview
There are two technical interview rounds plus a final interview that is 5 hours long. The first technical was some debugging and simple method writing in Java/Python, and the second technical was writing a few simple methods about tree traversals and binary search trees. I have not gone on to the final round yet.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you describe inorder, postorder, and preorder tree traversals?