I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Hulu (Beijing, Beijing) in May 2016
Interview
Interview was over Skype, about 45 minutes. The interviewer was friendly and personable. First were some questions on how I would design a webapp to allow users to log in to multiple accounts at the same time and update details on each account without being logged out. Next a couple of coding exercises, "design a function that takes a needle and a haystack and returns the index of the needle", "design a JS function that is given a namespace in the format "abc.def.hij" and creates the namespace such that abc.def.hij === {}". Finally, a few minutes at the end for me to ask any questions I wanted
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a JS function that is given a namespace in the format "abc.def.hij" and creates the namespace such that abc.def.hij === {}
Simple process overall, recruiters are very old-school from a tech perspective. Typical flow of behavioral, followed by some paired programming interviews. I had no reference. A lot of emphasis on work culture, but offered salary came up lackluster overall.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Hulu (San Jose, CA) in Apr 2021
Interview
1. Apply on Linkedin
2. Speak with recruiter
3. 1 hour coding interview
4. Final round 5 - hour interview:
Because I didn't prepare for Object Oriented design interview, so didn't do it well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. 1 hour screen: Top k questions,
2. final round: backtracking, Object Oriented system design, distributed system design
I applied online. I interviewed at Hulu (Santa Monica, CA) in Feb 2020
Interview
1 phone interview and 4 hour onsite at Santa Monica, CA. Interviewers were friendly. Algorithms and data structures was the focus for most part. There was also one system design question.
Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Hulu with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 62% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 73 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Hulu overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Hulu as a Software Developer according to 73 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 42%
One on one interview: 26%
Skills test: 12%
Presentation: 6%
Group panel interview: 4%
Background check: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 1%
Personality test: 1%
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