Sr. Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Rocket with 2.9 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 61.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Sr. Software Engineer roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 14 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Rocket overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Rocket as a Sr. Software Engineer according to 14 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
Group panel interview: 26%
Presentation: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
Skills test: 9%
One on one interview: 6%
Background check: 3%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 3%
Personality test: 3%
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The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Rocket (Detroit, MI) in Nov 2018
Interview
Phone call from recruiter. I like the conversation and agreed to take interview.
The first Phone interview was simple and nothing challenged . Then Onsite interview for more than four hours. First there was two team leaders and then looks like the entire team from Canada. I think this team is new team and I don't know even what they are looking for especially for senior position.
After that they interviewed me for another one-hour phone interview but I have already decided not to join these company so I didn't take this interview seriously.
The reasons are I don't think these is the right position for me because 1. they don't know what they want, 2. Looks like the team in Canada is more dominate and the decision is coming from that side and I know what will be the out come 3. I don't think I will learn something new from this team.
My Advice is if you are senior make sure what you are looking for is exactly much with the position and the team is here in US. And ask the recruiter who you interview with.
These were my worst interview experience. Sometime interviewed by less experienced people is really hard.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They gave me white paper ahead of the interview and were most of questions around that paper but almost all of them don't know the white paper.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Rocket in Jan 2025
Interview
Pretty average and straightforward process. HR screen, a meeting with managers then a meeting with a team. It was kind of a waste of time as there was no structure the interview questions and felt like the managers were unorganized. Some questions felt like it came from a textbook. Kind of a waste of time considering they made me come on-site. They also make you do an online coding assessment test where you have to download a browser plug-in to track what you're doing. This seemed sketchy and the results were never discussed afterwards
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about personal experiences. Questions out of a textbook about programming and databases
Had a phone call with a recruiter, then took an online coding assessment, with a spyware browser extension that I was pretty uncomfortable installing. There was a mix up and the assessment was in a technology I was unfamiliar with. I emailed the recuiter and never heard back.
I applied online. I interviewed at Rocket (Detroit, MI)
Interview
The first round was a meet and greet with a recruiter. The second round was a standard technical loop with a system design question and some whiteboard coding questions. Overall it was a good experience
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
To come up with a is_prime function that returned true if something was prime.