I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Robinhood (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2019
Interview
Went through their 3rd party online screening and was invited onsite. Echoing what some others have said, had some completely insufferable and cocky interviewers that were new grads out of college. One MIT-grad interviewer spent the first twenty minutes talking about himself and left little time for the technical portion. To add to this, no questions (not even "tell me about yourself") were asked of me. Was he there to boost his own ego, or interview a candidate? Personally, I'm not sure. This was not an outlier case, as another interviewer exhibited similar behavior. Overall, my experience with this company has been that of extremely poor recruiter communication and appalling interviewer behavior. Robinhood seriously needs to take a look at how they interview and hire candidates. Declining their offer after this on-site experience.
Had the OA which was 4 questions. The interesting part was that each question had a separate time limit, rather than the typical 1 hour total for all 4 questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First question was some basic string manipulation.
Don't remember the 2nd question.
3rd was some implementation stuff.
4th is algorithmic.
Regular interview process with technical screen then three rounds coding, system design, and project deep dive. Questions are average difficulty on leetcode, would definitely prepare for both coding and system design.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
don't remember exactly the question but graph related?
The recruiter said I passed all the interviews, takes me to HM round, says I did great and then tells me can't push out an offer quickly so would keep me under consideration for 6-8 months, like wtf?
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Robinhood with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 39% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 80 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Robinhood overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Robinhood as a Software Engineer according to 80 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 43%
Presentation: 17%
One on one interview: 17%
Skills test: 7%
Group panel interview: 6%
Other: 6%
Drug test: 2%
Background check: 1%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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