Principal Financial Group interview questions

First round was a chat with HR, no questions, just giving me details and letting me know I was selected for an interview and scheduling it. The second round took place on Teams, 3 different developers from different teams. The interview was 2 hours long, first half was behavioral questions and the second hour was a live coding exam. Live coding exam takes place on your PC, sharing your screen on Teams on your IDE of choice. They emailed me JSON files with 3 questions. I made the mistake of not noticing the questions on the email and thought they would communicate them verbally. Because of this, I misunderstood the question and they didn't correct me or didn't know to correct me. I recommend not sharing your screen until after you've received the email and pulled in the data and questions. I also wasn't a fan of doing this through my own IDE, because it means I had to spend time setting up a test environment and getting it to work with the JSON, something I wasn't familiar with. Personally would have preferred leetcode or something similar to simplify the process. The questions themselves weren't inherently super difficult.

One way interview, 4 questions. Pretty easy with time to think about responses for 3/4 questions and allowed to redo responses. One question was given a 30 second prep time and you only get one chance