Roku·Software Engineer

Roku Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United KingdomPosted Apr 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for two different roles and ended up going through the same format twice, and I failed both times.

After an initial call with the recruiter, they booked two technical tests that felt more like a stress test than an assessment.

The format centered on live coding on HackerRank using purely algorithmic exercises. The risk was extreme: if I got lucky with initial inspiration and could code something decent quickly without shortcuts or documentation, the result looked smart; if I got stuck, the test made me look unprepared even if that didn’t reflect how I worked on the job.

On the second attempt, the interviewer didn’t engage while I was coding—they even turned off video and went muted for

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