Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Nest with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 43% positive. To compare, the company-average is 40.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 13 days to get hired, when considering 14 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Nest overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Nest as a Software Engineer according to 14 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 26%
One on one interview: 17%
Skills test: 13%
Presentation: 9%
Group panel interview: 9%
Background check: 9%
Drug test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Other: 4%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Nest (Palo Alto, CA) in Mar 2015
Interview
Nest's hiring process for Software Engineers seems pretty comparable to most other Silicon Valley companies. Despite being acquired by Google, they still have their own independent jobs board and hiring process. I went through the following steps:
Phone screen:
- 1 coding
On-site interviews:
- 3 coding
- 1 system design
- 2 behavioral (including hiring manager)
All the engineers I met seemed very smart and motivated. However, a common theme that emerged in my conversations was that many of them felt concerned that Nest was becoming more and more chaotic and inefficient (process-wise) with its recent huge growth in headcount.
After the on-site interviews, they took about a week to extend an offer. In the end, I declined as I had a more attractive opportunity with another major tech company, plus I felt a bit uneasy over what I heard about Nest's internal issues.
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Can't disclose due to NDA. But I can say that all the coding questions were pretty typical, just like the ones for most other Silicon Valley companies. The system design question was more focused on a Nest-specific scenario.
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Question 1
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I interviewed at Nest on October 2021. It was a good experience. There were 2 Technical rounds, 1 Manager round and 1 HR round happened. In Manger round they asked about project and skills.
After I applied online they immediately call me and schedule the interview. The interview was very good and it is little difficult. They asked mainly on object oriented programming concepts, SQL server and other technologies.