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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There will be a case study given. 1 question was to write a REST API to validate a comment whether it has objectional words or not. Another was regarding finding shortest path. They will give you 1 hour and help you connect to the wifi.
But one of the worst interview experience had. I had done the case study before 1 hour and 1st round of interview happened. He asked everything from Java to Spark, kafka, cassandra, java8. I answered all the question but answered 2 questions partially. The interviewer was nice and friendly, after the interview, he told to wait, HR will call you for the next round. Then HR came and told me to leave for the day. I had answered everything and even interviewer said there will be second round!!!!! but then HR is telling i have not cleared the round. What the hell is wrong with these people. I had read other interview comments regarding this, Many reviews said the same thing but still i went and wasted my time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1 question was to write a REST API to validate a comment whether it has objectional words or not. Another was regarding finding shortest path.
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.