Software Development Test Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California
Process
The recruiter was very approachable and always provided transparency into the status of my application.
The first phone screen mostly involved describing my background and included a short technical question at the end.
The on-site experience included lunch with my hiring manager and several 45-minute interviews. The interviews felt casual and friendly, but were challenging enough to probe my problem-solving approach and past experiences.
The offer came a few days after the on-site, and my recruiter assisted with negotiating and adjusting my total compensation.
The entire process took approximately 3 weeks.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Roku Software Development Test Engineer role in San Jose, California.
Success Rate
Roku's interview process for their Software Development Test Engineer roles in San Jose, California is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Roku's Software Development Test Engineer interview process in San Jose, California.
Roku Work Experiences
- 1.0Very competitive, a tough place, quick fire and goEngineering • Current EmployeeSan Jose, California, United StatesJuly 31, 2020Pros: OTT is a good place to be. Consumers are dropping cable at record speed and adopting OTT as their streaming preference. Roku is in the right place at the right time.Cons: Tough working environment and culture. Less flexibility to innovate and think out of the box. Easy to navigate if you know how to manage upwards. Quick hire and fire for minor issues. It's basically a swim or sink culture (as stated in previous reviews).
- 2.0Too many layoffs, morale lower than everEngineering • Current EmployeeSan Jose, California, United StatesSeptember 11, 2023Pros: - Good market pay, mostly cash. - Great hiring; people are fun to work with. - Lunch provided in some locations.Cons: - Multiple layoffs, no job security. ICs are first to go. - Forced RTO 3 days a week, job at risk if non-compliant. - Increased monitoring of employees. - Executive leadership lives in an ivory tower, out of touch. - Very poor, one-way communication between execs and everyone else. - Future of the company is ambiguous, no strategic direction. Big mistakes made at the top with zero accountability. - No 401k match. - Work-life balance gets worse with every layoff.
- 3.0Good place to work, except for some very biased upper management (in QA especially)Senior Software Engineer • Former EmployeeSan Jose, California, United StatesDecember 12, 2023Pros: Good culture amongst teams (dev <-> qa collaboration is good). Good benefits. Good tech stack, especially internal automation.Cons: Upper management (especially in QA) tends to be very biased to certain teams (i.e., supporting certain teams and outright obliterating other teams without any logic, other than bias).
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