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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 11, 2016
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Dolby (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2016

      Interview

      The interview process was about 4 weeks in total, though it technically still hasn't ended (9 weeks later, more on that at the end). Phone calls: One with HR, one with the hiring manager, and one with one of the engineers on the team. All pretty standard stuff. Career goals, coding questions, experience questions. Onsite: 6-hour in-depth interview with about 7 team members and managers. More fairly standard stuff. Coding riddles, experience questions, general chats about the future of <job specialization>. During the interview process, the job title and requirements for the job I was interviewing for changed a couple times without notice. No big deal, because it was still relatively close to the job I applied for. It went from a more creative product development role to a more straight engineering role. After the onsite interview, I was notified that the position was going to an internal candidate, but that they would like me to stay on the line for other positions that they were immediately opening up. I took them at their word and re-applied for a couple that did come up, but was met with silence after following up with the HR contact. It's been 5 weeks at this point. It's unclear if there is just such an impenetrable bureaucracy there that 5 weeks of silence with a candidate is normal, or whether their HR is just not equipped to properly decline a candidate. Needless to say, I will not be following up further, and was left with a bad taste in my mouth about Dolby.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I was asked a variety of coding riddles. One was to write an algorithm for finding the number of paths through a grid from a given point, with constraints for direction of movement.
      1 Answer
      5

      Other Senior Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Dolby

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 2, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Dolby

      Interview

      The interview process was long after giving the online coding test , received result after a month . The interview was for engineering team but rounds were taken by researcher with 2 years of experience taking interview for 8 years of experience position and with 0 idea about system design and was unable to navigate as to what he wanted from the round .In short the rounds were waste of time because one the senior showed a positive signal for hiring but even after that got a reject.
      1

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 21, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Kraków
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Dolby (Kraków) in Feb 2021

      Interview

      I was interviewed for position in Wroclaw, Poland. The process consisted of 4 steps and took about 3 weeks: 1. 15 min call with recruiter from LinkedIn 2. 30 min call with Recruiting Manager EMEA 3. 1 hour tech. interview with 2 engineers from French branch 4. 1 hour tech. interview with engineering manager 5. 1 hour tech. interview with two C++ engineers from Poland So, overall ~4 hours of time invested to the process. No live coding in tech. interviews. The most technical part was (3) with all questions around technologies used during my career. Interview with Engineering Manager was partially technical, partially testing leadership skills and cultural fit. The last interview was 100% cultural fit interview. Unfortunately, after 2 or 3 weeks passed after the last interview, the guys did not bothered themselves with the feedback.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. Difference between flatMap and map in Java 2. Have you had experience with asynchronous processing in Java? 3. How does HTTP protocol works? HTTPS ? 4. Why do you consider joining the company?
      Answer question
      1

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Nov 28, 2018
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Declined offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Dolby

      Interview

      1. 1 hour phone interview and you will be given a 2-hour online coding test; 2. 4 rounds on site technical interview, for coding, project experience, how to handle the difficult things; 3. 1 rounds with HR manager;

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      FFT, Audio signal processing; Basic coding on C/C++/Python
      Answer question
      3