Roku·Software Engineer

Roku Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I spoke with a recruiter first, and then I got an interview scheduled with the hiring manager.

The conversation went really well, and I was then invited into a full set of in-person interviews at their HQ—four rounds was the number I was given.

But the day before my scheduled interviews, the recruiter reached out with a quick change: they had decided to hire someone else, and my entire interview plan was cancelled. No extended discussion about where I stood, just a cancellation.

It ended before I even walked in, so I never got the chance to validate anything in the later rounds. My overall feeling was disappointment more than anything else, because the process momentum had been

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