Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Target with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 42% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 33 days to get hired, when considering 19 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Target overall takes an average of 14 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Target as a Senior Software Engineer according to 19 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 26%
One on one interview: 18%
Presentation: 12%
Group panel interview: 10%
Drug test: 8%
Skills test: 8%
Background check: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Personality test: 4%
Other: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Target (Minneapolis, MN) in Jul 2015
Interview
They give you 3 problems to take home and you have to solve and bring it to your interview. I have caught several people cheating in those and even brought this problem to HR, but no action was taken. So, it doesn't really matter who solves those, you should be ready to explain your solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain your solution in detail. Why Target and all that boiler plate questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at Target in Mar 2026
Interview
Online coding assignment based on spring boot
Hiring manager round question on past project and concurrency in java
Pair programming round. They will give you a code which has bug. Even if your if solve it , it will not build and interviewer don't give a F.
I applied online. I interviewed at Target (Minneapolis, MN)
Interview
Initial tech screen is questions only. Know your Java, know about back-end development. Know about spring boot and annotations. They are a Java shop and they will ask these questions.