AT&T·Software Engineer·Onsite - Multi Round
Jun 2026
Two rounds, coding and system design. The coding round was fine, nothing to write home about. The system design round was a different story: spent most of it trying to extract basic requirements from an interviewer who just wouldn't engage, and walked out not even knowing what I was supposed to be designing.
- Design a system (requirements intentionally left vague, no direct answers given to clarifying questions).
- Coding problem involving file reading using an obscure built-in, with the core task being to build a map and perform aggregation.
“Twenty minutes of clarifying questions and I still couldn't pin down what the functional requirements were.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at AT&T, Onsite - Multi Round round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.
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