Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Publicis Sapient with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 31 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Publicis Sapient overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Publicis Sapient as a Software Engineer according to 31 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 14%
Other: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Personality test: 5%
Group panel interview: 5%
Background check: 4%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Publicis Sapient (Bengaluru) in Aug 2016
Interview
I applied through College placements.
The1st round was an online test consisted of 4 sections in total. They were :-
Verbal Ability - 15 Questions - 25 Minutes
Qualitative Ability - 25 Questions - 35 Minutes
Computer Programming - 25 Question - 35 Minutes
Logical Ability - 25 Question - 35 Minutes
The Second round was a face-to-face technical interview .The interviewer asked programming questions and also puzzles.The interview went about an hour.Questions like the followng were asked
-Write a function that take a binary tree(root node), and two of its node as its argument and returns the value true if the two given node of the tree are cousins (There are at the same level) ,false otherwise.
-Implement a ‘size’ fuction that returns the number of bytes occupied by a data type(without using sizeof() fuction)
The Third round was Managerial Round/HR Round.Normal HR questions like, tell me about your self, Why do you want to join Sapient etc.Managerial questions like write the complete software development lifecycle(This took a good 40 min),How should requirements be collected from client efficiently etc. were asked.
The Third round took about 40 min.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a array of characters, count the total number of repeated characters(Do this in O(1) space and O(n) Time)
Ex:a[]={a,a,b,c,d,b,a,c,e} then answer= 3 (a,b and c are repeated).
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Publicis Sapient (Bengaluru) in Dec 2025
Interview
First we had an OA round followed by 2 technical interviews. The OA was pretty decent whereas of the interview rounds 1st was more on technical understanding heavy while second focused around application and building capabalities.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How can i build my very own personalized AI assistant like a J.A.R.V.I.S.
The interview process for a software engineer at Publicis Sapient typically involves three to four rounds: an initial screening, an online coding assessment, one or two technical interviews, and a final behavioral/HR round. The process can be completed fairly quickly, often within two weeks.
I interviewed at Publicis Sapient (Bangalore Rural)
Interview
first round was online assement
need only one question to clear
second round is technical round, study dsa and cse core fundamental, that enough
, then last round is HR , go for behavioral question practices the genric ones