Principal Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Index Engines with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Principal Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Index Engines overall takes an average of 16 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Index Engines as a Principal Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Background check: 25%
Skills test: 25%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Index Engines in Mar 2014
Interview
I applied thru campus career fair.The send an email to invite a phone interview next day,asking about some knowlegde about linux and C/C++, and big data processing experience. I messed up some linux questions, but the interviewer invite an engineer from another team,may be on front-end to call me two days later, asking me some UI/PHP project experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
asking stuff about real time Linux kernel debugging
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Index Engines (Holmdel, NJ) in Jan 2016
Interview
I applied this job from the university career fair, the interviewer reached out to me a few month later. The next is a phone call interview which ask me about some basic questions. A few days later they asked me to attend their on site interview. The working environment is pretty good and people there are friendly. The interview questions are not very hard.