I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at T-Mobile (Bellevue, WA) in Jul 2021
Interview
A waste of time, literally FOUR MONTHS. Very unprofessional and condescending interviewers. I read previous reviews here of it being a waste of time but I decided to proceed. If you're reading this, don't waste your time with this process:
- Online Assessment: fairly easy questions
- 3 hour "onsite": Consists of one 1 hour soft-skills interview, and one 2 hour coding pair challenge. For the coding pair challenge you are tasked with sharing your screen on your personal IDE to solve a problem with an engineer.
If you've reached this point, you will be part of a domain match, which takes MONTHS.
- Domain Match Interview: This was the most negative experience I've had. You wait until a recruiter pairs you with a Hiring Manager. The process takes AT LEAST FOUR MONTHS. They are very slow with pairing you with someone with no sense of urgency, and once they do, the interview is a very messy and disorganized process. There were two hiring mangers who were more of interrogating me than interviewing. They were very condescending. In addition, they stressed the "Work Hard, Play Hard" culture at T-Mobile which is a huge red flag and a synonym for that you'll be working your tails off with no work-life balance. Horrible interview experience. I would never want to work for them.
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at T-Mobile in Jan 2026
Interview
Screening(hr, why and looking for)
Technical -1 &2( domain specific backend more questions and simple codes fix and logic testing),
Better to avoid the company.
I have answer them perfectly.
Still I got ghosted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What api responses for this code and what changes needs to done.
Simple SOLID Principle codes for review.
Simple python code error fix and suggestions.
I first had a phone interview, they asked simple questions about programming and my background. Then I had zoon interview where they asked more technical questions. They asked me to explain one of the project I have worked on, the design I used and technologies.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain the 4 principles of OOP and why we use them.
Write a program to find the shortest path in a graph.
waste of time. super rude interviewer of a certain ethnicity, didn't seem interested at all, didn't ask me any questions that pertained to my experience. overall. very disappointing experience and would not recommend.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at T-Mobile with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 51% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 45 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at T-Mobile overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at T-Mobile as a Software Engineer according to 45 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 22%
Group panel interview: 17%
One on one interview: 14%
Presentation: 13%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Skills test: 7%
Drug test: 7%
Personality test: 6%
Background check: 5%
Other: 3%
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