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 online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Target (Bengaluru) in Sep 2017
Interview
Recruiter will sent you case study before a week you need to come-up with solution in java. case-study will be way too complex to understand initially and I struggled with design/implementation in Java. As i havent finished my solution in the given time, they asked me to do it in their office in the first 1 hour. As it happened on weekend for me, there were around 60+ people coming in, may be for all different roles and team. I somehow managed to get the coding part done for the given case-study. First Level happened with Manager directly. It started with talking with experience and introductions stuff. Manager interrupted in between to make it comfortable and understand my profile better. Seeing 4 different jobs with different company in the last 6+ years, he seems to be concerned with that and asked more question around it. When i told that i am expecting work-life balance as it is big concern in my current company, he straight away told that work-life balance wont be good and its depends on the team. As per him, it is normal to be stretching over weekends for 2 weeks in a month and so asked me to decide now itself as it would be same case there. by asking some simple java question. he was not happy with my response/answer i believe.he didnt bothered about case-study. i was asked to wait for sometime and leave for the day. so based on my experience with this interview process, if you would want work-life balance strictly , then dont proceed
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write Java code in paper to Find the 3rd largest element in array/list
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.