I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Chewy (Boston, MA) in Mar 2023
Interview
1. Phone screen
2. 1-Hour technical interview
3. 4-Hour final panel interview - coding/algorithm, behavioral, debugging/problem solving, system design
The interview themselves were fine and study material was provided. Interviewers were kind and had some good discussions. Scheduling was drawn out over 1.5 months. After the final interview it took ~2 weeks to get back to me saying it wasn't a good fit.
A week after the final decision, I got a call asking if they were to give me an offer that day for a similar position for a different team, would I take it (paraphrasing). After discussing, they said they would get back to me. It took two more days to then say they gave the position to a different candidate. This left a really bad taste in my mouth.
I had to push for any form of feedback, and the feedback was very vague.
I applied online. I interviewed at Chewy in May 2026
Interview
Applied online and received a call about 3 weeks later. We first had a screening phone interview where they asked things like "Why chewy".
About a week later there was a technical round scheduled with an engineer on the team. During this round I was presented with an easy hacker rank question and was able to move forward.
The final round was a set of 4 interviews, 3 of which were technical and 1 behavioral. The technical interviews involved debugging existing applications and talking through the design of a basic CRUD application. Each of these interviews was 1 hour long and they spanned over 2 days.
Overall, everyone was pretty respectful and friendly throughout the whole process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Walk through the design of a basic CRUD application. Consider various trade offs of all the decisions you make.
I applied online. I interviewed at Chewy (Minneapolis, MN)
Interview
A phone call with behavioral questions about current work experience. Then a 10 minute multiple choice test with 20 questions about Java. Questions were on very specific parts of Java that I have not used before like Vector classes and different implementations of Vector classes.
On the initial call, the screener told me that the coding interview would be a series of coding questions on a certain skills-testing website, so that is what I prepared for. It wasn’t that at all— the interviewer plonked me down in an empty online environment that I wasn’t familiar with and basically said “build a web app, go” with very little guidance. I wasted too much time trying to figure out how to import different packages into the environment while the interviewer was very unclear on if that’s what he expected me to do or not. Then he said “time’s up” and was not interested in hearing any more about my thought process.