REI Systems Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

The interview process was pretty straightforward. Mostly 3 or 4 members sat in the interview panel and asked plenty of questions. No complaints about it. Once I succeeded there, they asked me to attend a manager round. After the final round, they took a lot of time to get back to me. After that, they called me and started bargaining about my salary. First, they reduced 10K from what I submitted earlier. I accepted, they took another one or two weeks, and they again reduced 10K more thousands, I accepted it as it was remote. Again, they took another week, I tried to wake them up through my emails. Then finally, they called me and said market conditions are bad and told me to reduce another 10K, totally reducing 30K from my actual proposal pay at the time of profile submission. I said I will take it as my contract was getting over and I needed to grab some offer. Then they took another few days and told me the company is not interested in hiring me as they have budget constraints. They said they would get back to me once the position was available again, then I told them I didn't prefer this company again. This is not professionalism at all, and they kept me waiting for more than a month, a waste of time for taking multiple rounds of interview... I'm happy for not working with such unprofessional folks.

I put in my application online and was contacted by a recruiter. The first interview was a phone call with a developer. They asked me some standard technical questions relevant to the job. After that, I went to their office for interviews. I met with the whole team individually, and they mostly asked similar technical questions, a lot of the same stuff. Then, I had a final, short interview with the project managers and contract holders. For that one, they focused on my resume and some tech questions from the architect. Everyone was really nice and professional. They want to ensure you understand the material but are understanding if you're not perfect.

The first step was a phone screening which was a phone interview. The interviewer called me 5 hours late without any apology. A week later, I had a face-to-face interview scheduled for 2 hours, but it ended up being 3 hours long. I had to wait in the lobby for 30 minutes. Three interviewers spoke to me one after another. They asked a lot of analytical questions like number guessing, pan balance problems, and logical puzzles. The HR person never got back to me with the results. They seem to expect a lot of work for less pay, as most employees work late nights and weekends.