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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Chicago, Illinois

June 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

A full afternoon, broken into four parts:

  • General discussion of the position with a team lead.
  • Coding exercise: They bring in a laptop and have you flesh out a skeleton project.
  • OO design exercise: How would you design a ___?
  • More senior manager interview.

Heavy emphasis on programming in Java. They really want someone who programs in it day to day, and it looks like you get dinged for small mistakes even if you are coding on a whiteboard or on paper.

In my case, it seems one issue was that I was not assertive enough in defending my design/coding decisions. They're really looking for someone who can work quickly and stand behind that work.

Questions

How would you design a board game?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 14 interview experiences for the Grubhub Software Engineer role in Chicago, Illinois.

Success Rate

50%
Pass Rate

Grubhub's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Chicago, Illinois is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive64%
Neutral7%
Negative29%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Grubhub's Software Engineer interview process in Chicago, Illinois.

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