Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Houzz with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 24% positive. To compare, the company-average is 44.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 34 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Houzz overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Houzz as a Software Engineer according to 34 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 45%
One on one interview: 19%
Presentation: 12%
Skills test: 12%
Group panel interview: 5%
Personality test: 3%
Background check: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Houzz in Mar 2017
Interview
Brief HR call, then a 1on1 with one of the engineers. The interviewer asked a general question but expected a very specific solution which he had in front of him.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Majority Element: A majority element in an array A[] of size n is an element that appears more than n/2 times (and hence there is at most one such element). Find that element.
Standard interview process,
1st step is the online coding challenge in one of the popular coding sandbox provider
2nd step and 3rd step is technical rounds, questions asked are Basic framework and libraries and DSA
final round was with HR
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Houzz (Taipei) in Aug 2023
Interview
1.round : an interview with hr 2 round: an interview with a senior engineer with leetcode:Search a 2D Matrix and it takes about an hour. The hr said that there're 5 rounds in total which is time consuming.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The leetcode problem Search a 2D Matrix and some problems about how to test the code etc.