Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at SoundHound with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 52% positive. To compare, the company-average is 48.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 26 days to get hired, when considering 23 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at SoundHound overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at SoundHound as a Software Engineer according to 23 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 39%
Presentation: 20%
One on one interview: 16%
Group panel interview: 6%
Background check: 6%
Drug test: 4%
Skills test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
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The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at SoundHound in Jun 2012
Interview
I had a long phone interview with a top level engineer at the company, where I was asked a few direct technical questions and also given an interesting problem scenario to think through. I cleared that round, and was given a take-home coding problem to finish in a time window of 24 hours that I had chosen. The solution should be in C++. I did not clear this round, as I believe my solution was not good enough. One tip is to first quickly implement a good solution, without worrying about how robust your code is. I spent way too much time trying to perfect not-so-important aspects in my solution.
They started out with an HR interview as per the usual routine. This was followed by a technical screen over the phone. This consisted of a not-too-difficult coding question and some questions about my past experience. The last stage was a four-round virtual onsite, two rounds of coding questions plus one of system design and then a talk with the engineering director.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the questions involved designing a simple C++ structure with an embedded array (private of course). They then asked me to write an indexing operator[] for the structure.
Smooth and team members are nice and personable. Seems to be a nice company with solid environment. Not sure on the company’s outlook given the name change and industry environment.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at SoundHound
Interview
It was pretty average and casual. The interviewers were really nice. They were helpful throughout the interview and they were very friendly. The questions were pretty average and easy to get by.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me about a typical tree traversal question