Roku

Software Engineer Interview Experience - United Kingdom

August 12, 2023

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The process involved short programming quizzes, examining questions and code online.

As is often the case, some questions lacked a univocal solution, yet some individuals insisted on what they believed to be the absolute right answer.

The interviewer seemed more eager to showcase his own expertise and knowledge than to inquire about my experience or listen to my responses. I felt he didn't care at all.

Furthermore, the aim of the role was not explained.

Questions

C language coding and C++ knowledge

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 7 interview experiences for the Roku Software Engineer role in United Kingdom.

Success Rate

14%

Pass Rate

Roku's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United Kingdom is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive57%

Neutral29%

Negative14%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Roku's Software Engineer interview process in United Kingdom.

Roku Work Experiences

Working in Roku during the pandemic

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Very flexible and good work-life balance. Easygoing and very talented people. You always feel pushed forward and find a helping hand.

Cons: The pandemic made the work a little bit messy, and scheduling meetings isn't as easy as it would be in the office. Nothing the end of the pandemic won't fix.

Working in Roku during the pandemic

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Very flexible and good work-life balance. Easygoing and very talented people. You always feel pushed forward and find a helping hand.

Cons: The pandemic made the work a little bit messy, and scheduling meetings isn't as easy as it would be in the office. Nothing the end of the pandemic won't fix.

Good Pay, Layoff Concerns

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Good compensation and work-life balance.

Cons: They aren't very transparent regarding layoffs.

Good Pay, Layoff Concerns

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Good compensation and work-life balance.

Cons: They aren't very transparent regarding layoffs.

Great Learning, Company Growing

Software Engineer • Current Employee

January 12, 2021

Pros: Really flexible in terms of work for home and Covid and time off. Pretty high learning curve as someone fresh out of college, but everyone is super helpful and willing to teach. Everyone is kept in the loop on how the company is changing moving forward.

Cons: Growing pains as the company becomes bigger and is continually adapting to the world around them.

Great Learning, Company Growing

Software Engineer • Current Employee

January 12, 2021

Pros: Really flexible in terms of work for home and Covid and time off. Pretty high learning curve as someone fresh out of college, but everyone is super helpful and willing to teach. Everyone is kept in the loop on how the company is changing moving forward.

Cons: Growing pains as the company becomes bigger and is continually adapting to the world around them.

Working in Roku during the pandemic

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Very flexible and good work-life balance. Easygoing and very talented people. You always feel pushed forward and find a helping hand.

Cons: The pandemic made the work a little bit messy, and scheduling meetings isn't as easy as it would be in the office. Nothing the end of the pandemic won't fix.

4.0
Working in Roku during the pandemic
Software Engineer • Current Employee
August 4, 2021
Pros: Very flexible and good work-life balance. Easygoing and very talented people. You always feel pushed forward and find a helping hand.
Cons: The pandemic made the work a little bit messy, and scheduling meetings isn't as easy as it would be in the office. Nothing the end of the pandemic won't fix.

Good Pay, Layoff Concerns

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Good compensation and work-life balance.

Cons: They aren't very transparent regarding layoffs.

3.0
Good Pay, Layoff Concerns
Software Engineer • Former Employee
April 8, 2023
Pros: Good compensation and work-life balance.
Cons: They aren't very transparent regarding layoffs.

Great Learning, Company Growing

Software Engineer • Current Employee

January 12, 2021

Pros: Really flexible in terms of work for home and Covid and time off. Pretty high learning curve as someone fresh out of college, but everyone is super helpful and willing to teach. Everyone is kept in the loop on how the company is changing moving forward.

Cons: Growing pains as the company becomes bigger and is continually adapting to the world around them.

5.0
Great Learning, Company Growing
Software Engineer • Current Employee
January 12, 2021
Pros: Really flexible in terms of work for home and Covid and time off. Pretty high learning curve as someone fresh out of college, but everyone is super helpful and willing to teach. Everyone is kept in the loop on how the company is changing moving forward.
Cons: Growing pains as the company becomes bigger and is continually adapting to the world around them.

Roku Interview Questions

LRU Cache

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

Sliding Window Maximum

Find the maximum value within each sliding window of a given size as it moves across an array.

ArraysSliding WindowsStacks

Substring with Concatenation of All Words

Find all starting indices of substring(s) in a given string that are formed by the concatenation of all words from a provided list, where each word must appear exactly once and without any intervening characters.

ArraysStringsSliding Windows

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