Jpmorgan

I applied for the JPMorgan Chase Software Engineer Program (SEP) Intern role through my college's on-campus recruitment drive. The process started with resume shortlisting, followed by an online assessment on HackerRank. The OA had two DSA coding questions along with other assessment-based questions. The coding problems were mainly around arrays, strings, hashing and basic data structures, with the difficulty being around easy to medium. After clearing the OA, I was invited to the HireVue round. This was quite different from a normal technical interview because it focused mainly on behavioral and situational questions. I was asked about teamwork, leadership, handling disagreements, challenges I had faced in projects and how I would explain technical concepts to someone without a technical background. I had limited time to prepare and record each response, so communicating clearly and concisely was important. Similar SEP candidates have reported questions around teamwork and explaining technical concepts to non-technical people. I was hoping to make it to the next stage, the Code for Good hackathon. In the SEP process, shortlisted candidates can be invited to the hackathon, where teams work on a real problem statement provided by an NGO with guidance from JPMC mentors. Public experiences describe this as a substantial development-focused stage rather than another conventional interview. Unfortunately, I was not shortlisted for Code for Good, so my process ended after the HireVue round. I didn't receive detailed individual feedback explaining whether the decision was based more on the OA or HireVue. Overall, the experience taught me that JPMC SEP recruitment isn't purely DSA-focused; communication, teamwork and behavioral preparation are also important.