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      Backend Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 26, 2023
      Anonymous employee
      Durham, NC
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at WillowTree (Durham, NC) in Jan 2022

      Interview

      I went through 5 or 6 interviews. Most were behavioral and small coding. They really wanted to get to know me personally and see how my thought process worked. 2-hour live coding interviews - I didn't even complete the code in the live coding I just talked through a lot of things I would do.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What's my favorite coding language and why?
      Answer question

      Other Backend Software Engineer Interview Reviews for WillowTree

      Software Engineer, Backend Interview

      Sep 12, 2018
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Charlottesville, VA
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at WillowTree (Charlottesville, VA) in Aug 2018

      Interview

      The interview process consisted of a phone screening, followed by a recorded video screening, technical interview, coding project, and onsite interview. Overall the interview process was extremely quick and friendly!

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Explain a use case for AWS Lambda.
      Answer question
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      WillowTree interviews FAQs

      • Backend Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at WillowTree with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Backend Software Engineer roles take an average of 26 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at WillowTree overall takes an average of 29 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at WillowTree as a Backend Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:

        One on one interview:  20%

        Background check:  20%

        Phone interview:  20%

        Group panel interview:  10%

        Drug test:  10%

        Skills test:  10%

        Presentation:  10%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Software Engineer(70) ;
        2. Senior Software Engineer(30) ;
        3. Software Test Engineer(22) ;
        4. Platform Software Engineer(14) ;
        5. Project Manager(13) ;
        6. Product Designer(12) ;
        7. Staff Software Engineer(12) ;
        8. Growth Manager(9) ;
        9. Program Director(7) ;
        10. Software Engineer(Internship)(7) ;
        11. Designer(6) ;
        12. Platform Engineer(6) ;
        13. Intern(5) ;
        14. Internal Operations(5) ;
        15. Platform Software Test Engineer(5) .


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