Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York
June 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceGot Offer
Process
The process comprised eight separate one-on-one interviews with employees in various roles at GrubHub, ranging from senior management to software engineers.
- Phone with Recruiter x 2
- Phone with Software engineer
- Onsite
- Software engineer x2
- Software eng lead
- QA Lead
- Director
- Phone with Recruiter & Offer 2 days later
At this point, I had interviewed with lots of software companies in NYC, and I honestly thought the process was one of the best. There's a fine balance between the intensity of software engineering interviews and being interpersonal.
- One-on-one interviews, instead of two-on-one, which can be more difficult for the candidate because of the ability to build rapport and energy (feels like an interrogation).
- Whiteboard and live coding were actually enjoyable, whereas most of the time can be very painful and stressful.
- The start time was somewhat after lunch, from 1 PM to 6 PM, which gives time to prepare and does not include the 'lunch interview'.
Questions
I was asked to design a pre-ARC memory management system for Objective-C.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 8 interview experiences for the Grubhub Senior Software Engineer role in New York, New York.
Success Rate
63%
Pass Rate
Grubhub's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in New York, New York is on the easier side as most engineers get an offer after going through it.
Experience Rating
Positive63%
Neutral13%
Negative25%
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Grubhub's Senior Software Engineer interview process in New York, New York.
Grubhub Work Experiences
3.0
Smart Team, Low Morale
Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
June 14, 2025
Pros: Weekly Grubhub Credit
Smart Engineers
Cons: Low company morale, productivity monitoring, Wonder laying off people and stripping the company for parts.
4.0
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
May 10, 2018
Pros: Food. The pantry is stocked with drinks, snacks, cereal, and more. Catered meals are provided on Fridays, and there's an $18 Grubhub stipend each week, which is about one meal. It would be nice to have another day's worth of food.
Meet new people during lunch; everyone eats together. Everyone is nice.
Work-life balance and a laid-back environment. I came from a dog-eat-dog environment with long work hours, and this is far from it.
There are women engineers, leads, and senior management, but the NY office needs more diversity! (I don't know much about the other branches.)
Paid conferences and a desire to have engineers present.
No issues with hardware, such as laptops, monitors, standing desks, or mice. If you need something, ask for it, and you'll have it within a couple of minutes.
Cons: Code reviews can be really meticulous, to a point that I think is ridiculous. This may not be a con for you, but the code is clean. I feel like that can still be achieved without this level of nitpicking.
Teams are siloed. I like to work on a breadth of problems, from ops to SRE to typical engineer work (startup environment). You won't do that here, but there is a set of tools to do what you may need. You can also propose a feature and offer to implement it yourself.
Hierarchical.
2.0
Work-life Balance Strained, Morale Low
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
March 3, 2025
Pros: Previously, work-life balance was good.
Cons: Work-life balance is strained. Recent layoffs have lowered morale. It takes forever to get new features out the door.
- 3.0Smart Team, Low MoraleSenior Software Engineer • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesJune 14, 2025Pros: Weekly Grubhub Credit Smart EngineersCons: Low company morale, productivity monitoring, Wonder laying off people and stripping the company for parts.
- 4.0Senior Software EngineerSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesMay 10, 2018Pros: Food. The pantry is stocked with drinks, snacks, cereal, and more. Catered meals are provided on Fridays, and there's an $18 Grubhub stipend each week, which is about one meal. It would be nice to have another day's worth of food. Meet new people during lunch; everyone eats together. Everyone is nice. Work-life balance and a laid-back environment. I came from a dog-eat-dog environment with long work hours, and this is far from it. There are women engineers, leads, and senior management, but the NY office needs more diversity! (I don't know much about the other branches.) Paid conferences and a desire to have engineers present. No issues with hardware, such as laptops, monitors, standing desks, or mice. If you need something, ask for it, and you'll have it within a couple of minutes.Cons: Code reviews can be really meticulous, to a point that I think is ridiculous. This may not be a con for you, but the code is clean. I feel like that can still be achieved without this level of nitpicking. Teams are siloed. I like to work on a breadth of problems, from ops to SRE to typical engineer work (startup environment). You won't do that here, but there is a set of tools to do what you may need. You can also propose a feature and offer to implement it yourself. Hierarchical.
- 2.0Work-life Balance Strained, Morale LowSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesMarch 3, 2025Pros: Previously, work-life balance was good.Cons: Work-life balance is strained. Recent layoffs have lowered morale. It takes forever to get new features out the door.
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