Ask HN: What are interviews like in non-software engineering professions?
Currently going through the hackerrank/algo DS process.
What is it like for other fields, especially other engineering fields?
What is it like for other fields, especially other engineering fields?
I have also occasionally interviewed for non-SWE positions at tech companies (usually data scientist or regulatory compliance positions, both of which are closely related to my current field), and I have found the interviews to be similarly light on technical material, but with much less emphasis on speaking and writing skills.
Not having been through any SWE interviews myself, that's about as much as I can say in comparison. My loose impression is that SWE interviews are relatively heavy on logic puzzles and mini coding problems, but that's all I know. I am happy to answer more specific questions about my experience, of course.
I worked as architect, mech. engineer and various other engineering sectors. There are some technical questions of course but nothing like whiteboarding binary search or tree traversal.