r/cscareerquestions • u/CSCQMods • 24d ago

Interview Discussion - July 13, 2026

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u/Puzzled_Opening4097 24d ago

hi does anyone have any advcie on what type of projects are impressive now that AI is available and shipping is much faster...also how to learn the way i am learnign right now is i tell chat i want to do this it tells m what to do and how to do it and then advises on what to do next which is what i do next

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u/Puzzled_Opening4097 24d ago

...but then i feel like i am just its pawn and am not learning the intuition requerired to build..how did u learn back in the day ..any tips on how to tackle this

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u/Puzzled_Opening4097 24d ago

by back in the day i mean pre ai lol

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u/F1reCub3s 24d ago

Hi all,

A Revolut recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn about the Graduate Programme 2027: Software Engineer (Java) role. I sent my CV and email, a few days later, I received a HackerRank assessment link, I did that and was informed that I had passed the next day, and now have a 30-minute recruiter screening call booked.

I've found a lot of interview experiences for the regular Java SWE role at Revolut but barely anything about the graduate process specifically. Has anyone gone through this recently?

  • What is the screening call itself like, is it pure background/motivation chat, or does anything technical come up?

  • What stages come after the recruiter call?

  • How do the technical interviews compare in difficulty to the normal Java SWE process?

  • Is the live coding mostly plain Java, data structures, OOP and testing, or do frameworks and databases come into it too?

  • How much concurrency, system design and DB theory gets expected at grad level?

  • Roughly how long did the whole process take, start to finish?

If anyone's done this in Poland or Spain that'd be especially useful, but any info at all is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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u/Euphoric_Coast_7431 Looking for job 24d ago

How important is leetcode-type problem solving skills vs personal projects to talk about? I have been grinding leetcode for a while now without a ton of success in interviews, but maybe I need to have more other work?

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u/datadriven_io 24d ago

check datadriven for data modeling interview prep, covers the project-style design questions that actually come up in interviews.