Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Nokia with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 63% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 160 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Nokia overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Nokia as a Software Developer according to 160 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 20%
Group panel interview: 14%
Phone interview: 14%
Background check: 9%
Presentation: 8%
Personality test: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 1%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Nokia (Bengaluru) in Sep 2025
Interview
The OA was pretty easy with 2 coding questions and 2 sections with MCQs
Interview was maximum focused on DSA (Linked list mainly] , Database ( Basic SQL queries) and other ai related things as they were included in my project such as scemantic search, vector databases
Few coding (on paper) questions were on Linked lists like 1. Finding the loop in the list
2. Finding if 2 Linked list have an intersection node or not
3. Write the code for a creation of linkedlist including the linkedlist class
4. Given a linked list of 0s and 1s sort it such that you don't change the values of the node, you have to swap the entire node itself
5. One stack question that was similar to the medium level leetcode questions related to temperatures one
6. Few Basic tree defination questions
(Binary tree, complete binary tree , balanced binary tree etc)
Good, the first interview is basically on personal experience, no major coding, just minor and just conversation. Need to write on paper to explain answer. The interviewer listen to my story of my experience. Have good communication.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about youself, and ask me about how to do good design
They asked about oops, sql queries and two problems to solve, each were easy to moderate level and it was based on arrays and strings, overall experience was average for me. It was face to face interview.
Just an assessment and a 10 minutes interview with the line manager explaining the possition and hear your questions. Basic assessment with simple programming questions and a small code to implement. From the interview site there was no technical questions. No HR people on the call