Roku

Software Engineer Interview Experience

November 1, 2018

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I interviewed at Roku for a software engineer position. I believe I did well in the onsite interviews and was expecting an offer. These people are so unprofessional when it comes to giving the result of the interview. I tried to reach the recruiter multiple times with emails. They never responded back. They should value candidates' time and stop this utter silence when it comes to giving results to candidates.

Questions

NDA.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 11 interview experiences for the Roku Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

45%

Pass Rate

Roku's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive64%

Neutral0%

Negative36%

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

Roku Work Experiences

Fast Growth, No 401k

Software Engineer • Current Employee

January 7, 2022

Pros: The company is growing fast.

Cons: No 401k match at Roku.

Fast Growth, No 401k

Software Engineer • Current Employee

January 7, 2022

Pros: The company is growing fast.

Cons: No 401k match at Roku.

Best place I've ever worked!

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Saratoga, California, United States

Pros: * My work impacts millions of people. * I get to work with people I can rely on, who are talented and have deep experience. * I have no problem getting the tools I need to do my job. * The environment is very professional, and I am treated with respect.

Cons: Crunch times happen occasionally (although not worse than any other place I've worked). As we get larger, individuals are becoming more specialized -- sometimes I miss having my hands in everything.

Best place I've ever worked!

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Saratoga, California, United States

Pros: * My work impacts millions of people. * I get to work with people I can rely on, who are talented and have deep experience. * I have no problem getting the tools I need to do my job. * The environment is very professional, and I am treated with respect.

Cons: Crunch times happen occasionally (although not worse than any other place I've worked). As we get larger, individuals are becoming more specialized -- sometimes I miss having my hands in everything.

It's hard to be successful here

Software Engineer • Former Employee

September 1, 2021

Pros: Great coworkers, but that is it.

Cons: Stressful environment with tons of angst. Key players in the engineering org thrive being the masters of a high school-like clique. If you’re a yes person, then expect them to take credit for your ideas. If you stand up for yourself, expect to be out soon.

It's hard to be successful here

Software Engineer • Former Employee

September 1, 2021

Pros: Great coworkers, but that is it.

Cons: Stressful environment with tons of angst. Key players in the engineering org thrive being the masters of a high school-like clique. If you’re a yes person, then expect them to take credit for your ideas. If you stand up for yourself, expect to be out soon.

Fast Growth, No 401k

Software Engineer • Current Employee

January 7, 2022

Pros: The company is growing fast.

Cons: No 401k match at Roku.

4.0
Fast Growth, No 401k
Software Engineer • Current Employee
January 7, 2022
Pros: The company is growing fast.
Cons: No 401k match at Roku.

Best place I've ever worked!

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Saratoga, California, United States

Pros: * My work impacts millions of people. * I get to work with people I can rely on, who are talented and have deep experience. * I have no problem getting the tools I need to do my job. * The environment is very professional, and I am treated with respect.

Cons: Crunch times happen occasionally (although not worse than any other place I've worked). As we get larger, individuals are becoming more specialized -- sometimes I miss having my hands in everything.

5.0
Best place I've ever worked!
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Saratoga, California, United States
March 19, 2015
Pros: * My work impacts millions of people. * I get to work with people I can rely on, who are talented and have deep experience. * I have no problem getting the tools I need to do my job. * The environment is very professional, and I am treated with respect.
Cons: Crunch times happen occasionally (although not worse than any other place I've worked). As we get larger, individuals are becoming more specialized -- sometimes I miss having my hands in everything.

It's hard to be successful here

Software Engineer • Former Employee

September 1, 2021

Pros: Great coworkers, but that is it.

Cons: Stressful environment with tons of angst. Key players in the engineering org thrive being the masters of a high school-like clique. If you’re a yes person, then expect them to take credit for your ideas. If you stand up for yourself, expect to be out soon.

3.0
It's hard to be successful here
Software Engineer • Former Employee
September 1, 2021
Pros: Great coworkers, but that is it.
Cons: Stressful environment with tons of angst. Key players in the engineering org thrive being the masters of a high school-like clique. If you’re a yes person, then expect them to take credit for your ideas. If you stand up for yourself, expect to be out soon.

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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