Smarsh·Software Engineer

Smarsh Software Engineer interview experience

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HyderābādPosted Jul 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step began with a resume screen from a job portal, and then recruiting reached out to brief me on the role and salary expectations.

After scheduling, I took a HackerRank coding challenge.

From there, I had two technical discussions. The first was longer—about an hour and forty-five minutes—and the interviewers were friendly. The second technical discussion was shorter, around forty minutes, and that was the point where I was rejected. What stuck with me was how the HR portion that followed would have been structured, pulling questions from a broad range of areas and focusing on things outside core data structures and algorithms, which felt rare for a software product company.

Across the earlier rounds, I noticed they

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