Hulu·Software Engineer

Hulu Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Sep 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through Hulu’s process right from a college career fair, and it was an on-campus, one-hour setup with two back-to-back rounds.

In the first round, I was given a sheet of code and asked to write down what the output would be. The tricky part was that I didn’t recognize the language they’d used, even though the result itself looked like a tree-style structure.

The second round had two coding questions. One was straightforward in concept: merge two sorted linked lists together. The other asked me to implement an LRU cache, and that portion went poorly. The interviewer seemed unhappy with me throughout, and the tone made it hard to recover confidence once I felt behind.

I didn’t move forward after that. What stuck with

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