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Software Engineer In Test Interview Experience

April 1, 2016
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online with an internal employee referral. I heard back from a recruiter, but that's where the good ended.

There were multiple significant unprofessional communication issues regarding the scheduling of the tech screening. Then an engineer called 15 minutes late to tell me that they needed to reschedule because the other interviewing engineer wasn't in the office that day for what I was originally told was a 1:1 interview. This was at 3 PM. No excuses, but not the end of the world.

A different engineer called back at the rescheduled day/time for me to find out that it had been passed off to him "5 minutes ago" and it was now back to a 1:1 interview. He conducted the technical screen and told me 3 times during the 45 minutes that he was coding his own work while watching me on his other monitor, as excuses for why he kept making rookie mistakes in reading my code. I had an optimal solution done with time to spare. He even commented that I did a great job communicating my solution and building it.

I waited 2 weeks and heard nothing back, so I followed up via email. Nothing. At 3 weeks, I followed up via their online portal. Nothing. At 4 weeks, I followed up via LinkedIn. Nothing. At 5 weeks, I followed up with my friend in the company, who told me that HR told him that they never got feedback from the engineer. They only did this because he physically walked down to HR to ask about it after they didn't respond to his emails either, which went to an HR manager no less.

At this point, I had decided not to continue with their terrible process regardless, but I finally got a response. After all that, they had the nerve to send me a form email from a no-reply address stating there was a "stronger candidate" for the position. How can there be a stronger candidate if they never got feedback from the engineer?

tl;dr - Horrible HR department; they don't even respect their own employees. They lied to me and never responded over and over again. Seriously unprofessional. I knew from the beginning this was going badly but kept going because my friend in the company said it was great. Don't waste your time.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Splunk Software Engineer In Test role in United States.

Success Rate

17%
Pass Rate

Splunk's interview process for their Software Engineer In Test roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive33%
Neutral17%
Negative50%

Candidates reported having negative feelings for Splunk's Software Engineer In Test interview process in United States.

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