I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Hulu in Oct 2014
Interview
Hulu's HR is great and has super fast response time. Applied at university and got an email within a few days. First round was a timed online coding problem which was a breeze for me.
Second round is to write code on the web using something like Google Docs during phone interview. The questions were quite hard, but manageable. The interviewer didn't care about what I was saying, and he walked away from the phone many times during the interview when I was coding and had to ask him for clarifications. When I got a chance to ask him questions, he told me "I don't know" to everything - even his opinions on working at the position. I did not even get a "thank you" before he hang up.
However, HR followed up promptly and politely with me every time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement LRU Cache (hint: any method other than their desired answer is wrong)
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%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 1%
Personality test: 1%
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