Roku·Software Engineer

Roku Software Engineer interview experience

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SeniorPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview experience felt oddly unpredictable from the start.

I went through the process for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) role, and even though I made it to the end of the rounds, it ended in a rejection.

What was hard to reconcile was the overall sense of uncertainty around how things were evaluated. I had expected clearer momentum or feedback as the process progressed, but the journey didn’t feel consistently navigable until I reached the final “not moving forward” decision.

By the time I found out I wasn’t selected, I mostly just felt that the process outcome didn’t map cleanly to what I believed I was doing in the interviews. The main

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