Process
Round 1 - Manager phone screen to determine culture and team fit, and go over past experiences indicated on your resume.
Round 2 - Technical phone screen with an engineer on the team.
Onsite - 4 rounds, similar to the technical phone screen, covering DSA and systems design.
Questions
I signed an NDA, hence I cannot share specifics. However, the questions were standard DSA questions one would expect in a software engineer interview process.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 93 interview experiences for the Splunk Software Engineer role in United States.
Success Rate
22%
Pass Rate
Splunk's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Positive37%
Neutral22%
Negative42%
Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Splunk's Software Engineer interview process in United States.
Splunk Work Experiences
2.0
A shadow of its former self
Software Engineer • Former Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
February 12, 2017
Pros: Very useful product, customers legitimately get a lot of value even with high prices. Fair amount of different technology problems to interact with. Individual contributors are often helpful. Overall, this is about as good as you can imagine a mid-size enterprise software shop could be. There's a dream that it's still a fun company, but it's just a company, which isn't a bad thing.
Cons: No longer able to hear the needs of customers, who want usability and reliability. A dysfunctional waterfall process produces poorly integrated features instead. Industry best practices on scope management and quality are given lip service, but not actually followed. Technical debt is fairly high.
New projects often struggle with politics and process.
5.0
Good place to work
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
May 8, 2019
Pros: Good work-life balance company, good culture and atmosphere within the company. Communications among different sites are easy and good.
Cons: Projects in Shanghai site are not interesting sometimes.
4.0
Solid, But Sometimes Not
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Portland, Oregon, United States
March 9, 2025
Pros: Very solid, yes, it was.
Cons: Sometimes not so solid, I do declare.
- 2.0A shadow of its former selfSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesFebruary 12, 2017Pros: Very useful product, customers legitimately get a lot of value even with high prices. Fair amount of different technology problems to interact with. Individual contributors are often helpful. Overall, this is about as good as you can imagine a mid-size enterprise software shop could be. There's a dream that it's still a fun company, but it's just a company, which isn't a bad thing.Cons: No longer able to hear the needs of customers, who want usability and reliability. A dysfunctional waterfall process produces poorly integrated features instead. Industry best practices on scope management and quality are given lip service, but not actually followed. Technical debt is fairly high. New projects often struggle with politics and process.
- 5.0Good place to workSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeShanghai, Shanghai, ChinaMay 8, 2019Pros: Good work-life balance company, good culture and atmosphere within the company. Communications among different sites are easy and good.Cons: Projects in Shanghai site are not interesting sometimes.
- 4.0Solid, But Sometimes NotSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeePortland, Oregon, United StatesMarch 9, 2025Pros: Very solid, yes, it was.Cons: Sometimes not so solid, I do declare.
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