McGraw Hill Software Engineer interview: verbal engineering discussion

After a brief recruiter chat, I had what was scheduled as an engineering-manager discussion, although a senior developer led it. It was a one-hour, verbal technical round with no live coding.

We discussed Terraform, CI/CD strategy, GitHub Actions, observability, and day-to-day production support. I also described a simple education-domain schema for teachers, students, classes, and assignments, including the relationships I would model. It felt easy and direct: two conversations and no LeetCode-style questions. I did not get an offer, but the format was less intimidating because there was no live coding.

Location: New York, NY. Overall feedback: negative. Offer status: no offer.