J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 1 semaine. J'ai passé un entretien chez Emergent Software (New York, NY) en mai 2024
Entretien
They make you take a 1-Hour online assessment that includes doing speed puzzles completely irrelevant to software engineering at all. Some of the puzzles were spacial relations and math twisters. You don’t need to know 75% of the things in their assessment to be a wonderful and skilled software engineer with coding and logic and algorithms skills. Their assessment just tests how much you like brain twisters and doing them fast.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
What does this 3D shape look like from a different angle?
J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Emergent Software en août 2025
Entretien
Interview was exactly as depicted on their site.
1. Initial Application
2. Online Assessment & Short Coding Test - Short answer test related to soft skills, technical questions, and general problem solving.
3, Initial Phone Interview - Short call with recruiter to gauge interest and confirm expectations
4, At-Home Coding Exercise - Github repo with instructions for a small project
5. Technical Interview - Typical interview going over past experiences and technical questions, then a section for discussion about the at-home coding exercise you completed
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
They started by asking my to pick a project of any size and explain what the goal was to then ask many follow-up question about.
It’s a multi-stage interview with automated and virtual activities ranging from IQ tests to English tests, which is a bit strange in the age of AI. Then there’s a Take Home test followed by a technical interview. In the end, they told me I wasn’t the right fit because my stack didn’t fully meet the requirements. They should have screened that out before all these steps. If you want to go through this process, think carefully about it.
J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Emergent Software (Minneapolis, MN) en mai 2025
Entretien
The interview process was very thorough. I felt like I was able to accurately show my skills and knowledge with the combination of online assessments and technical interviews.
I received no surprises during the process and it was all explained very well and directly via the careers page and recruiter.
The coding challenge was straight forward but also allowed a lot of flexibility in approach and discussion which I greatly appreciated. I felt it struck the right balance for being demonstrative of skills without requiring an overly cumbersome time investment from the interviewee.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Describe one feature or application you developed, what were the major considerations going into it and how did you solve for those?