I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Hulu (Santa Monica, CA) in Jan 2015
Interview
Step 1: contacted a recruiter (who was super nice and polite to me the entire time)
Step 2: completed the coding challenge
Step 3: had a phone screen with an engineer
Step 4: interviewed onsite ( four 1hr interviews + lunch = around 5hrs at their office in santa monica)
The recruiters are very quick in scheduling, replying and giving feedback. That makes everything much easier. I probably had to wait just a couple of hours after submitting the coding test and the phone screen to know about respective next steps, and about a day after the onsite to get the final decision.
I want to add that though this was like any other tech interview i'd appeared for, in the end the recruiter was actually kind enough to give me some constructive feedback - the first time any company had ever done that. I've since then made an effort to work on all those points, and have done much better at interviews and gotten some great offers as well! So, even though I didnt get the Hulu job, a big thanks to them for giving me the experience and feedback!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
all standard algorithm questions on graph traversal, linked lists, arrays, stacks, some dynamic programming - but in never-seen-before formats. apply yourself!!
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%
Personality test: 1%
Other: 1%
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