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AstraZeneca interviews FAQs
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at AstraZeneca with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at AstraZeneca overall takes an average of 35 days.
Common stages of the interview process at AstraZeneca as a Software Engineer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 17%
Personality test: 17%
Skills test: 17%
Background check: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Other: 8%
Drug test: 8%
Presentation: 8%
One on one interview: 8%
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Pretty straightforward and my recruiter got back to be pretty fast after each interview. There are three rounds, first there is a recruiter interview, then a manager interview, and finally an interview with the senior developers.
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Question 1
A mix of behavioral and technical, but no white boarding questions
I applied online through a virtual career fair, and a nice HR contacted me to schedule a 1st round phone interview, it's all BQ. Then got into next round technical interview, including a tech lead and product manager, introducing what their app is about, and asked my React's experience, and SQLite questions.
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Question 1
Why do you using SQLite in your android app project?
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at AstraZeneca (Chennai) in Sep 2025
Interview
I attended only the first round of the interview.But in my panel ,every students were asked only the same set of questions .The questions are only from the resume and the projects mentioned in the resume.Apart from the resume,the interviewers asked few technical questions and situational based questions .Overall it was a good experience to attend the first interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me to design the high level architecture of any social media app.And asked about the most comfortable programming language that I have worked with.
Average, basic data structures and algorithms and leet code practice and specific language will be suffice.
Python or java, backend , frontend or full stack knowledge with handson implementation and apti