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      Software Development Engineer Interview

      6 Jul 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Bristol, England

      Other Software Development Engineer interview reviews for IMDb

      Software Development Engineer Interview

      29 Jun 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at IMDb in Jan 2016

      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at IMDb (Bristol, England)

      Interview

      The process started with an online coding assignment then I was given a face to face interview. The face to face interview day involved five 1 hour interviews. As mentioned in previous comments there is a heavy emphasis on behavioural questioning. These questions feel very scripted with little attempt to get any insights into me and how I work. After the behavioural questions there is a short coding assignment at the end of each 1 hour slot but due to the lack of time available they feel insubstantial. And if you don't produce their ideal solution straight away then there isn't time to discuss and improve it. So you're left with no idea about whether you did well or not. I'm sure everyone they hire is of a very high quality but they must also miss out on hiring lots of potentially excellent employees due to such an inefficient process.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Tell me about a time you disagreed with a decision but then fell into line?
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Write a program to search through a list of actors in O(1) time
      Answer question
      5

      Interview

      Phone interview using a live coding session and a few questions afterwards. Focus on performance and caching. Interviewer didn't like Javascript. The interviewer was otherwise friendly. Sounds like an interesting job but is a part of amazon.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Write code involving arrays. The question was vague.
      Answer question
      2