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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Mountain View, California

November 1, 2016
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online, and the recruiter and coordinator did a very good job of connecting me to the team and scheduling me for an in-person interview at the Mountain View Campus.

On the day of the interview, I was told that the first hour was about "Work and Crafts." It was unclear if they would demo what the team was working on to me, or if I was supposed to demo my current work project to them. Even the team seemed confused about it, and they apologized, telling me I was the first candidate with the new interview process.

The first round was with two senior members of the team (both seemed to have 10+ years of experience). The question itself was a standard "career cup" question, but the attitude of the interviewers was very negative. It quickly turned into an ego clash between my interviewers, and I was hardly given a chance to make progress on the actual question, which was constantly modified by the second interviewer. Being a team of three members, I quickly figured out I would not want to work with them.

The manager was very professional and asked about my current application architecture and a few design questions. Overall, it was a good interview.

Finally, the PM was also nice and professional. They asked me how I would test the current application architecture and we had a conversation about the application they were working on.

Overall, the interview was good in terms of the questions, but the attitude of the interviewers in the first round was extremely bad. In the 1.5-hour interview, they debated the question for over 40 minutes amongst themselves.

Questions

Standard question around string manipulation.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 22 interview experiences for the Intuit Senior Software Engineer role in Mountain View, California.

Success Rate

36%
Pass Rate

Intuit's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Mountain View, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive23%
Neutral23%
Negative55%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Intuit's Senior Software Engineer interview process in Mountain View, California.

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