I applied online. I interviewed at Credit Acceptance in May 2025
Interview
Initial call with recruiter, followed by rounds of "get to know you" with senior engineering manager, "communication and culture", "technical deep-dive", and "critical thinking". The technical call was not, in fact, a deep-dive but dealt with string-handling and then built-in array functions in JS -- quite disappointing.
I still do not understand the growing prevalence of "critical thinking / systems design" phases of interviews that quiz me on things like global deployment strategies, pen-testing and more -- I presume I did poorly on this one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q to Me: situation where you were asked to change priorities.
Q to me: I’m on a complex project and will not meet the deadline.
Q to me: the benefits of TDD
Q to me: what keeps you excited about the industry
Q to me: i’ve joined the team and someone says TDD slows me down
Q to me: with my large team, is there a project I’ve been responsible for driving to completion
Q to me: a time when I felt the architecture wasn’t being designed well or the stakeholders wanted something that wasn’t the right solution to the problem or convince others to take a different course