I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at CARFAX (Columbia, MO) in Jul 2015
Interview
Applied online, carfax recruiter reached out did phone screen. 2nd phone screen from panel of developers to assess skillset. Went online to fill out 4 forms.
Called to come for in-person interview which consisted of a 1.5h pair programming doing JAVA red-green unit tests. The tests were all failed and pre-written, I sat with a developer and wrote code to pass them. Basic programming logic tests (4 in total), I remember 2: Fizzbuzz, Palindrome detection.
After which I was interviewed by a panel of 6 to assess skills from my resume, next was a panel of 3 upper managers to confirm my personality fit (i presume). Lastly I went to lunch with 3 developers.
They provide feedbacks which might be useful .Regarding the interview procedure, I think in some cases they jump into conclusion and make decisions base on those which might not be the real case.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at CARFAX in Jul 2025
Interview
I got a phone interview with Technical Lead then next round was with Two hiring managers. They asked me questions from my resume and some scenario based questions, they explained about role and what skills are required for that role.
One day of three interviews. Each interview had 2 people from the company.
The first two interviews were with engineers and consisted of coding challenges. Third one was with managers.
Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at CARFAX with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 25 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at CARFAX overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at CARFAX as a Software Developer according to 25 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 23%
Phone interview: 23%
One on one interview: 13%
Skills test: 12%
Personality test: 9%
Presentation: 7%
Background check: 7%
Drug test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Other: 1%
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