
Centene Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Centene.
Software Engineer Intern
It was alright. Just the usual behavorial questions. Easy to get through with good communication skills. Not much else, need to practice scenario questions. Hardly any technical questions asked. Personality was really important.
- Tell me about your strengths and weaknesses.
Software Engineer
I was ghosted after an initial recruiter call. I interviewed with the team about a week later. The interview itself was pretty easy, but it turned out the job ad was completely wrong about the role after talking with the team. The hiring manager said he'd talk to HR about it, but they didn't seem to care enough to update it. I didn't hear back for a few weeks. I ended up interviewing elsewhere and got an offer right after.
- Can you explain the functionality of the code shown in NotePad?
Software Engineer Machine Learning
I applied in late January and got an interview about 3 weeks later. First, there was a quick 15-minute recruiter chat where they asked about my skills, like what tech I use and my ML experience. Then, I went straight to the final round with three people from the Data Science team. They asked some technical questions that weren't too hard, about my resume, ML/stats concepts, and my past work. Pro tip: Make sure you can talk confidently about any ML projects on your resume. The interviewers mentioned a lot of candidates throw around terms like neural networks and deep learning but don't really grasp basic stats and ML, so be ready for that. The whole experience was really positive, everyone was super friendly and professional.
- Can you define regularization and explain its significance?
- Could you explain logistic regression to a novice?
- What are the distinctions between optimizers such as Adam and SGD with momentum?
Centene Software Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Centene interview reports.
“What are the distinctions between optimizers such as Adam and SGD with momentum?”
Read reports →“Can you explain the difference between var and let in Javascript?”
Read reports →“Could you explain what inheritance is in Java?”
Read reports →“Can you define regularization and explain its significance?”
Read reports →“Could you explain logistic regression to a novice?”
Read report →“Can you explain the functionality of the code shown in NotePad?”
Read report →“What are your strategies for error handling in Java?”
Read report →“What are your thoughts on Java?”
Read report →“Tell me about Java and OOPS concepts.”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 25 Centene interview reports.