Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Rocket with 2.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 93 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 Software Engineer according to 93 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 36%
Group panel interview: 14%
Presentation: 9%
One on one interview: 8%
Background check: 8%
Skills test: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Personality test: 6%
Drug test: 5%
Other: 1%
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Standard screener call after applying online. They use a company called Filtered that records your screen and camera during a "take home" assessment. It then took 2.5 weeks to "review" the Filtered assessment which is to write a proxy--the instructions seem intentionally super ambiguous. The next round was to review the Filtered submission, their only question was, "how would you get this submission ready for production." There were no follow-up questions and we moved on to the design portion of the interview. The question was, "Design a smart light system." The interviewers were not engaged in the interview process, did not provide any guidance or input on what they'd like to see and were generally disinterested throughout the process. It was clear that neither of the interviewers in that last interview had reviewed my Filtered submission prior to our interview.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Rocket (Chennai) in Mar 2026
Interview
The first round was long coding, where we need to create an application for student availability during classes. We can draw either a class diagram or an uml diagram. Interaction with the hr and basic output matters.
The interview was well-structured and professional, with clear questions focused on real-world scenarios. The panel was respectful and engaging, creating a comfortable environment to discuss technical skills, problem-solving approach, and past experience.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Rocket in Apr 2025
Interview
Four rounds/steps:
1. Phone screen
2. Online coding assessment
3. Team interview/coding interview
4. Architecture & Design
The phone screen was simple and nothing noteworthy. The online assessment had two videos recording parts and one coding assessment. One thing to note the online tool used for the coding assessment required in my opinion an invasive plugin that monitors browser tabs (which is removed after leaving the assessment). Additionally the assessment is rather poorly implemented, the instructions tell you that the response is JSON, but in fact the response it HTML/Text with JSON body for the payload. The team interview is where I ended applying for Rocket due to the following reasons, one of the employees conducting the interview was rather arrogant and condescending believing that her way was the only way, especially on code assessment section (which confuses me on why have the initial online coding assessment). The coding assessment was literally only 20 minutes long asking to implement a solution calling an API, however, the team did not disclose ahead of time that I would be expected to use my own IDE, which meant some quick set up work. The API(which was rather a poorly implemented API -never seen an API that implements pagination without allowing an input for number of items per page) was rather simplistic, however, as I alluded despite multiple ways to arrive at the same result that would not impact performance, she was adamant that her way was the only way. This is after her changing the problem 3 times after I arrived at a solution to the original problem. This was all in a short 20 minute window. She then rushed the interview with 10 minutes remaining for my questions, instead of allowing me to finish the last little change she requested. At the end she was all "we done this so many times, we know exactly what we are looking for." Which told me all I needed to know that Rocket employees do not practice there own isms that they link to in every email of the interview process. At the conclusion of the interview I felt no longer wanting to continue in the application process. I am sure I am not the only one that felt like the team rubbed them the wrong way.