I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Grubhub (Chicago, IL) in Jun 2015
Interview
A full afternoon, broken into four parts.
1. general discussion of the position with a team lead
2. coding exercise -- they bring in a laptop and have you flesh out a skeleton project
3. OO design exercise -- how would you design a ___?
4. more senior manager
Heavy emphasis on programming in Java. They really want someone who programs in it day to day and it looks like you really get dinged for small mistakes even if you are coding on a whiteboard or on paper.
In my case, it seems one issue was that I was not assertive enough in defending my design / coding decisions. They're really looking for someone who can work quickly and stand behind that work.
Three steps: Behavioral screen with the recruiter, followed by tech screen with an engineer, followed by virtual onsite with leetcode style questions in addition to system design and behavioral interview rounds.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Grubhub (Chicago, IL) in Jan 2025
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter in January 2025, and scheduled a first-round live-coding interview with a tech lead. She was very helpful and supportive and it was probably the least stressful live-coding I've ever done. The interview involved coding functions for distributed architecture.
I was very quickly scheduled for a second and third interview, one a behavioral interview with the person who would be my manager, and a final live-coding interview with another engineer. The behavioral interview covered my experience with different technologies specific for the job and detailed coverage of one of my recent work projects. The final live-coding interview was also very relaxed and covered coding with data structures, specifically a linked list.
I was told the job was mine if the position was approved by the company's new owners, Wonder, after which I read that Wonder fired 25% of Grubhub's staff, and I haven't heard back since. The people I had the opportunity to talk to were magnificent, though.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
(In the context of distributed architecture) How could you incorporate a NoSQL structure to add to this system?
I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Grubhub (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2024
Interview
- An initial call with the recruiter to discuss the role and how my experience aligns with the role and company.
- Phone Screen
- Final rounds with multiple engineers on the team and the hiring manager
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The question(s) were related to string manipulation, fairly common on YouTube and Leetcode, and were tagged accordingly.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Grubhub with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 58% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 52 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Grubhub overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Grubhub as a Software Engineer according to 52 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 25%
Phone interview: 23%
Presentation: 15%
Skills test: 11%
Group panel interview: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Drug test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Other: 3%
Background check: 2%
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