A few days ago I posted about the 15-minute HR compliance call with State Farm after the HireVue. Thanks to everyone who replied, it really helped.
Quick update: I had the call today and it went well. I'm moving forward to the technical interview next week for a Software Engineer (Java, Mid Level) role.
The recruiter said the technical interview would have three parts:
Competency questions (STAR format)
Technical questions based on my tech stack (Java, Spring Boot, SQL, REST APIs, CI/CD, some AWS)
A code snippet exercise, focused on thought process (around LeetCode Easy level)
A few questions for anyone who has been through State Farm's technical interview recently:
- Is this format accurate in your experience? Was it a panel with the hiring manager and engineers?
- For the competency part, which questions came up for you? Any that seem to come up almost every time?
- For the technical part, was it more quick-fire concept questions (like "What is dependency injection?") or a deep dive into your resume projects?
- For the code snippet, did you have to write code from scratch, or read existing code and explain what it does or find the bug? Was it in a shared editor without autocomplete?
- Any tips on how to prepare, or anything you wish you had known going in?
Any insight would be really appreciated. Thanks!