Lead Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Freshworks with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 53% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Lead Software Engineer roles take an average of 10 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Freshworks overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Freshworks as a Lead Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 33%
Group panel interview: 17%
Other: 17%
Background check: 17%
Skills test: 17%
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I applied in-person. I interviewed at Freshworks (Chennai) in Jul 2024
Interview
Its really a worst process, the interviewer mugged up the questions and answer, and he will expect to give the same answer, and atlast HR will call and say sorry you havent cleared try after 3 months, but i would suggest prepare DSA and keep this as an mock interview, we need to answer both the questions, but the interviewer itself doesnt know the answer, he just mugged up,
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They will ask two questions, will share my colleague who was interviewed also,
1.Binary search tree
2. Dynamic programming
3. longest unique substring
4. merge sorted array without extra space
5. find missing element in sorted array,
A couple of medium level leetcode questions.
2 system design rounds, each with a higher level engineer.
The leetcode questions went for basic stack and tree DS only.
The system design rounds were for log system.
Process is very smooth , it takes 2 week to complete
HR is very polite & helpful.
Two technical Round
-DSA questions based on Trie, Heap
- System Design questions like File System Document
Managerial Round
HR round
I applied and they called. We decided a date and the interview happened on that date. It went well. It was good.
I got selected. They offered me the position.