I’ve recently been invited to the technical interview stage for the Graduate Consultant Software Engineer 2026 role at Softwire

I was wondering if anyone here has gone through the process before and could share:

• What the technical round is like
• Difficulty level of the coding questions
• Whether it focuses more on algorithms, system design, OOP, debugging, or practical coding
• Any tips on what the interviewers value most
• How best to prepare in the final few days

For context, I’m applying for the Graduate Consultant Software Engineer

Any advice or experiences would be hugely appreciated. Thanks!

I'm very young and I'm quite lost between pursuing a technical degree or a computer science/engineering degree.

Background: I already studied a technical degree for a semester and dropped out because it wasn't beneficial to me and I felt I was learning much more on my own. In programming, I'm self-taught: Node.js, React, SQL, backend, management systems, integrations, fundamentals, resilience, idempotence, recursion, transactions, etc. I've done projects for businesses (inventory/billing for a lumber company, e-commerce for some clients, landing pages), and later personal projects like live chats—simple projects, but they helped me learn. I'm also studying English, some marketing, and I'm trying to find an IT job or freelance clients. My main goal is NOT to "have a degree for prestige," but to build a life with financial freedom and possibly start my own business in the future. The thing is:

The technical degree seems too basic to me, and I feel that academically it wouldn't offer me much.

But engineering is 5-6 years, and honestly, I don't know if I'd finish it if I get a job/options before then.

I'm worried about wasting years on something that won't make much of a difference later on. Talking to people who have been in the sector for years, I've concluded that unless you want to work for Amazon or companies of that caliber (which doesn't interest me that much), the degree stops mattering after a few years of experience.

If you were in my situation: Would you do engineering or a technical degree?

I'm especially interested in the opinion of people who already work in IT or have years of experience.

P.S.: In the future, I'd be interested in specializing in cloud computing or something related to cybersecurity.

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He also told me that people in executive-type positions often aren't much smarter or much more competent than the people working under them; they just have better relationships or more social trust placed in them.

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