Roku·Software Engineer

Roku Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

United KingdomPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an initial recruiter chat that focused on my past experience and what I was looking for, and then I moved into a hiring manager round.

What bothered me was the lack of context about what to expect—despite me asking for clarity, the format wasn’t explained, and I walked in almost blind.

On the first call with the hiring manager, I ended up getting coding that involved OOP, even though nobody had set that expectation. After that, the remaining rounds included a technical track that leaned into infrastructure and tooling: I was tested on Kubernetes and DevOps, and there was also a Python coding challenge in the same technical segment.

The process felt like it prioritized moving quickly through formats rather than preparing me

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