Rubrik·Software Engineer

Rubrik Software Engineer interview experience

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Palo Alto, CAPosted Nov 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got pulled in through the recruiter first, and the early stage was a phone conversation that mixed medium coding with thread- and multithreading-related questions.

Even though I was going to code in C++, the interviewer spent a lot of time on C++ specifics along with the concurrency angle.

From there, the process shifted onsite and became a five-round sequence. I had two programming rounds, two system-design rounds, and a behavioral round at the end. The overall difficulty felt average to moderately challenging, but it was the behavioral interaction that surprised me—my background didn’t seem to match what the interviewer expected, and the interviewer sounded unsure why I was being brought in. Still, I felt prepared going in.

In the end, I didn’t walk

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