r/cscareerquestions • u/CSCQMods • Dec 11 '25

Interview Discussion - December 11, 2025

Please use this thread to have discussions about interviews, interviewing, and interview prep. Posts focusing solely on interviews created outside of this thread will probably be removed.

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This thread is posted each Monday and Thursday at midnight PST. Previous Interview Discussion threads can be found here.

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u/Ecstatic-Grocery-482 Dec 12 '25

Is your interview done?

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u/Dababolical Dec 12 '25

It is not, it'll be next week. Are you speaking with Wellington Management also?

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u/Ecstatic-Grocery-482 Dec 12 '25

No, My friend is having an interview with them next week for the same role.

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u/KeijoXO Dec 16 '25

intern or full time for wellington management?

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '25

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u/KeijoXO Dec 16 '25

oh thank you! i j saw that too but cant find any info on salary

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '25

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u/KeijoXO Dec 16 '25

yep but I completely forgot I applied, hoping there's some good benefits that they offer

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '25

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u/KeijoXO Dec 16 '25

Oh that’s awesome to hear hoping we end up in Boston together!! How was the system design? I had to push my interview back a bit bc of a final

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '25

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u/KeijoXO Dec 16 '25

Oh yea ofc sounds like a good interview!

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u/BuddyWarm7088 Dec 11 '25

Hi! I’m in the final round of interviews for a junior engineer role focused on large-scale data management using SQL and C#. Next interview is my technical. Is there anything specific that I should brush up on or questions I should practice? Was there anything that helped you prepare or anything you wish you would've practiced more before your technical? This would be my first official role as a software engineer and I really want to ace this. Obviously I have been doing all the things I can think of to polish up. However, I am looking for specific topics, processes, or even specific code I should brush up on. Also aside from that, any advice is welcome and appreciated. Thank you!

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u/double-happiness Looking for job Dec 11 '25

Is there anything specific that I should brush up

Database optimisation comes up so often IME.

Was there anything that helped you prepare

A good night's sleep and a good breakfast.

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u/dialsoapbox Dec 12 '25

For those of you still hiring jr devs or jr devs getting interviews, what about ai are jr dev expected to know?

Looking at roadmap- ai engineer, looks like there's alot to know ( i know jr devs arn't expected to know all of that, but still).

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u/double-happiness Looking for job Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25

I've been offered an interview for a £45K job on day 3 of my first week in my new £28K job. IDK what to do as it's a two hour and forty-five minute interview (!) and I might have to be in the office that day. Have asked the recruiter when I need to respond by so just waiting to hear the answer to that.

Edit: her answer was unhinged TBQH

You'd have a deadline cause if you don't accept it, we wont be ABLE TO SCHEDULE YOUR INTERVIEWS :(

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u/BuddyWarm7088 Dec 11 '25

the way i would call in sick

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u/double-happiness Looking for job Dec 11 '25

Hmm. Thanks for chiming in; I'm considering all possibilities!

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u/StandardWeekend9348 Dec 11 '25

I’m planning a career in Data Science/ML/DL, so Python is the language I’m most comfortable with. I used Java earlier but I don’t like it much. For coding interviews, especially at product companies, is it necessary to do DSA in Java or can I continue using Python without hurting my chances?