Roku·Software Engineer

Roku Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

Santa Clara, CAPosted Oct 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I found Roku through a recruiter who reached out to me on LinkedIn and connected me to the Director of Engineering in just a couple of days.

The recruiter was friendly and motivating, but the direct call with the director felt cold and biased from the start.

He was late by about 15 minutes for our phone call, and he didn’t provide any feedback afterward. The whole interaction felt robotic and unfriendly, and I couldn’t shake the sense that he had already decided what he wanted before I even had a chance to explain myself. I left feeling like maybe I was overqualified, or that he was looking for a very narrow kind of front-end profile.

I didn’t get an offer, and the dominant feeling was frustration at the lack of respectful

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