Freddie Mac Interview Questions

I was selected to do an initial phone screen. It was a bit frustrating at first because you can tell the HR person is reading from a script and their is no genuine interaction. The answers to questions were written down, so I had to stop and repeat at times. Overall is was an okay interview process, and the HR person was very informative and friendly.

There were two technical and one manager round interview, they were focused on your past experience system design questions and some medium level sql, spark, hadoop architecture. Also on cloud services, databases, ETL pipeline management.

I applied on August 10 and got an interview email August 16...It was a phone interview they claimed was a screening interview... asked about why i wanted the job, why they should hire me and my salary expectations...then I got an email for setting up an interview with the hiring manager on August 30th...had the Teams face to face interview with the hiring manager on August 31..The interview went GREAT. probably one of the best interviews I had ever had. It went so great that the interviewer wanted to extend the conversation...she was talking about the day to day duties of the role and talked about how much she loved freddie mac and why she chose to work their. The interview went almost 20 mins over time...thats how good the convo was...i was told that If i didnt hear back by monday...which was like 3 days later...to call back...i called....nothing...emailed....nothing... i reached out to the recruiter AND the hiring manager...NOTHING..they ghosted me... then finally that friday my application was unavailable....they DENIED ME. for what reason??? I dont know because the interview went great and I even showed knowledge about the company. I answered every question and the Interviewer seemed to like my answers. She said she would love to have someone on her team who is a self starter and is accustomed to multitasking....said id be a good fit because of my attention to detail.. This was a huge waste of time and im going to take it as a RED FLAG that this company is VERY unprofessional and I will not waste any more time applying.

Interviewer was late, questions were asking to regurgitate easily-Googleable information from memory; interviewer clearly did not want to be there and would offer questions with very little clarification when asked

Fair interview with coding and backend questions. Questions regarding API, SQL, Java, etc. Additionally, behavioral questions were included. They also asked regarding past experiences. Phone interview with recruiter, followed by one Round hour long interview.

First round is an online interview where you turn on a camera and record answers to questions. You are presented with a pre-recorded question and have a couple minutes to answer. It was kind of weird to speak to a camera and not a person; it also felt weird knowing that a team of people have access to your video interview. Second round is a more traditional virtual interview; you have to set aside an entire day to attend a morning session, two 30-minute interviews, and a wrap-up session. I was in the business track, so I got behavioral questions, but I do know my quantitative-focused co-interns got more technical questions in their interviews.

It was a long process with multiple rounds of interviews, but they were mostly conversational, no case studies or anything similar that I have seen at other companies that I have interviewed with in the past.

I was contacted by a third-party recruiter for the position of Senior Software Engineer (Springboot). I got the first round of interviews where I was told that it is going to be a resume walkthrough but the interviewer asked me to code though he was very helpful. After this round, I was told that they won't be moving forward

video interview with a bot, about 25% technical the rest is personal. prior to it you can read all about freddie in their website, and its above and beyond to pass the technical part.

Very long time for someone to get back for every round of the interview. Recruiting department is very slow and non responsive. Overall management is better at answering questions. Usually takes around 3 rounds of interviews, recruiter, hiring manager, team interview and vp or director level interview.