I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at SurveyMonkey
Interview
There was an initial phone screen with recruiter. After the phone screen, the recruiter arranged for an onsite interview very quickly. The onsite was with four interviewers. Their questions we divided up into algorithmic and coding questions, as well as system design questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a LRU Cache.
Implement a class for a deck of cards. Write a shuffling method. How do you test it?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at SurveyMonkey in Oct 2025
Interview
I applied online, scheduled interview with technical recruiter. It was cancelled several times and finally interviewed with him and moved to the next round. I spent 3 hours interviewing with 2 team members of Project Manager in that panel interview. After that I was scheduled a final interview with direct of enginering. But suddenly it was cancelled. I reached out the recruiter what happened and she replied they will back with scheduled time by EOD. And then they went ghosted. I reached out them several times requesting the current status but No reply.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Did you have any contrasting opinions with the stakeholders?
I applied online. I interviewed at SurveyMonkey (San Jose, San Jose) in Jan 2025
Interview
An extremely lengthy, exhausting process with no consideration for the candidate.
The process was:
- Initial approach with Human Resources
- Technical interview: 1 hour
- Programming test (Lasts 8 hours)
- Technical interviews (two technical interviews and one with Human Resources)
The technical interviews last around 2 hours each
The HR interview lasts 1 hour
At the end of the entire process, they rejected me. When I asked them why, they told me they didn't feel I had enough experience in microservices.
This bothers me, since they could see from day one on my resume that I had only a few months of experience in this area, and I told them this repeatedly.
I found it extremely disrespectful to make someone go through this long and arduous process, only to be rejected because of something they could see from the start.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
technical questions, skills, programming, communication, infrastructure, etc.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at SurveyMonkey (Bangalore Rural) in Aug 2024
Interview
The first round consists of medium-level LeetCode DSA questions, focusing on sliding window and binary trees. The second round primarily covers Low-Level Design (LLD), system design, and a basic project discussion. The third round includes project-related questions
and database concepts.
Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at SurveyMonkey with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 20% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at SurveyMonkey overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at SurveyMonkey as a Senior Software Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 25%
Background check: 17%
Skills test: 17%
Phone interview: 17%
Presentation: 8%
Group panel interview: 8%
Other: 8%
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