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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Austin, Texas

October 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process was pleasant; everyone along the way was very kind and interested in what you had to say. I met them at a career fair and was then scheduled for an on-campus interview. The on-campus interview was 30 minutes with a very easy question, but I heard the questions asked varied significantly—mine was cake, while others had dynamic programming. After that, they scheduled me for one of their Super Days at their office in Austin, with 20 other students.

We were required to coordinate our own transportation and were provided a hotel room, but were given a roommate for the night. The night before Super Day, they invited us to a candidate dinner, which was really nice but kind of odd to be eating and drinking with your interviewers the night before. I would have preferred that the people in attendance were not our interviewers for the next day.

Super Day was all day long. They provided us lunch and breakfast at the office. They then split us into two groups. One group listened to employees give presentations and then completed a coding challenge, while the other went to interview on whiteboards. Then lunch, and the groups swapped.

There were three whiteboard interviews. Linked lists, arrays, and hashmaps—the usual. The coding challenge was very difficult to pass, and nobody got full marks. I'm unsure how they grade you on this and wish they'd be more transparent. NDA, so I can't go further.

Questions

Linked lists and arrays.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 42 interview experiences for the Indeed Software Engineer role in Austin, Texas.

Success Rate

21%
Pass Rate

Indeed's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Austin, Texas is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive64%
Neutral17%
Negative19%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Indeed's Software Engineer interview process in Austin, Texas.

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