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 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 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%
Phone interview: 17%
Skills test: 17%
Group panel interview: 8%
Other: 8%
Presentation: 8%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -