Roku·Software Engineer

Roku Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Negative

United StatesPosted Apr 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Roku felt dysfunctional to me mainly because of how the recruiter communication fell apart over time.

A headhunter reached out in 2012 and we never actually spoke—everything stayed stuck in email with no real connection. Then a different recruiter came back in 2014 and acted like I had been rejected before, even though the earlier effort never actually progressed.

That new recruiter’s assumption led to a strange, negative filter where they seemed to treat the lack of follow-through from the first recruiter as if it were something I was hiding. It left me with the uncomfortable sense that I was being judged on a narrative that wasn’t accurate.

I didn’t get an offer, and the biggest takeaway

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