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Big Nerd Ranch interviews FAQs
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Big Nerd Ranch with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 9 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Big Nerd Ranch overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Big Nerd Ranch as a Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 20%
Personality test: 20%
Presentation: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 20%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Big Nerd Ranch
Interview
Interviewed with CEO back when he took care of hiring. Very casual and comfortable. I think the process has moved on to involve phone screens, then eventual 1:1 interviews with who would be your manager. I do not think the CEO is involved anymore.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Where you see yourself and the field of computer science 10 years from now
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Big Nerd Ranch (Atlanta, GA) in Oct 2021
Interview
***ENGINEERS STOP - DO NOT BELIEVE THE 5 STAR REVIEWS - THIS COMPANY WILL WASTE YOUR TIME***
I lost 4 hours of my life to this company working on a technical challenge that was designed to fail. Don't let this happen to you.
Big Nerd Ranch outsources their technical challenge to a third party company. My technical challenge was building a simple frontend app using react/javascript, incredibly easy in theory.
However the requirements for the app were incredibly vague. Additionally, I was disqualified for not adding multiple features that weren't even mentioned in the requirements document.
Honestly, the interview difficulty would've been very easy if the process wasn't rigged. Because of that I rated this as very difficult.