Hulu Software Engineer interview experience

My first touch was two technical phone screens, followed by an onsite interview. The detail that stood out immediately was how much they leaned on code comprehension right at the start.

In the first phone screen, the recruiter sent a PDF with code roughly twenty minutes before the interview. I had about twenty minutes to read and understand what two small programs did. One was straightforward string manipulation, and the other took longer to get a handle on. In the interview itself, I explained what each program did and how I would improve it. Then I had to write a small program in an online