I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Hulu (Santa Monica, CA) in Sep 2014
Interview
I applied online in August, and was followed up by a recruiter after 1 - 2 days. Then I had a coding challenge online, which took me an hour to complete. On the same day, I received an email from my recruiter saying that they decided to move forward with me. I scheduled the phone interviews a week later. There were two rounds, which included coding, design and architecture. The problems were not difficult, but covered basic data structures, problem solving approaches and computer fundamentals. Practicing yourself with the problems from topcoder, leetcode or codeforces would definitely help, but don't expect too much to encounter the exactly same problems in the interviews. The onsite interviews had same layout, but more design-oriented. I received a call from my recruiter the day after my onsite, and I was told that Hulu decided to extend me an offer. Overall, the whole interview process was enjoyable. And I was very impressed by their responsiveness.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design Hulu's backend services, how to scale, where are the pitfalls
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%
Drug test: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Other: 1%
Personality test: 1%
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