I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Hulu (New York, NY)
Interview
Recruiter contacted through linkedin and was very friendly and spoke on the phone for half an hour. She spoke about position and hulu as a company and she wanted to know about my background.
Next round was phone interview. Asked to solve a string anagram problem. Wrote the code with test cases and executed all the test cases.
Next round was onsite. Hulu office is very friendly and people were very friendly too. Had 4 rounds of interview. First round was design question. Second round was with hiring manager. This round is more about us understanding culture fit and background in depth. Third and fourth round was more of coding questions and working with the interviewer to solve problems. It was fun talking to all the people.
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 Engineer 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 Engineer 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 Engineer 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%
Drug test: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Other: 1%
Personality test: 1%
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