Hulu Software Engineer interview experience

About a day before the interview, I was told I’d receive code samples around twenty minutes before it started. That turned out to be the right general idea even though the timing was a bit off—those samples arrived about five minutes into the interview instead of before it. The good part was that the walkthrough wasn’t brutally challenging, though it still took real concentration.

During the interview, the conversation also covered my interests and what kind of work I’d done and was doing at the time. The code portion leaned heavily on judgment and comparison: I was asked what name I would