Hulu Software Engineer interview experience

I felt good about how it went, and that led to an onsite. On the onsite, it was classic whiteboard work: algorithms and design questions, but the prompts felt pretty divorced from the actual job. I ended up solving kinds of questions like building something akin to a regex engine, thinking through unusual class designs, and even a high-rise-style design problem—very disconnected from what I’d normally do.

The process still followed a fairly heavy structure. I had multiple one-on-one rounds across a full onsite block, with each interviewer starting by asking me to introduce myself and discuss