Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Scribd Inc. with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 15% positive. To compare, the company-average is 20% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 31 days to get hired, when considering 13 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Scribd Inc. overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Scribd Inc. as a Software Engineer according to 13 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 59%
One on one interview: 24%
Group panel interview: 12%
Presentation: 6%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Scribd Inc. (New York, NY)
Interview
I applied after finding a listing online. I was contacted shortly after and started with 2 Skype interviews, 1 general chat and another going over a previous project with specific code questions. Then a longer Skype interview which involved 3-4 interviews, one "whiteboard" exercise, one technical Q/A, one higher level chat and possibly another general interview (can't remember now).
Most people I talked to where nice but 2 out of the 3 interview that was organized the interviewer was 30min - 1 hour late. Even within the last interview some of the individual people were late in between interviews. It was quite frustrating.
They were very quick in organizing interviews but after the last interview I didn't hear anything for a long time. I crashed and burned in one of the coding exercises so didn't expect an offer but it took nearly a month to get a rejection from them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The whiteboard exercise asked how to work out all the different number of combinations you could go up 'n' number of stairs if you could step 1, 2 or 3 steps at a time.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Scribd Inc. (Toronto, ON)
Interview
start with recruiter screening - hiring manager - virtual onsite. hiring manager went over the team and then asked few behavioral questions. In virtual onsite there will be 2 rounds coding and system design
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what are the projects you have worked on previously?
The interview went okay. Mostly behavioural questions were asked in first interview. I could gauge that internal team structure was missing and probably the interview was a front to hire someone internal. Received an email 15 minutes after the first interview that they have hired someone else.
The interview formats were typical, though most rounds felt very disorganized and unprepared. I was made to feel very confident that I was going to receive an offer after the final rounds, and then fence posts kept moving until I was told otherwise. I left feeling that my time was wasted by the recruiter, and that the company's standards for professionalism were quite low.