Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 3 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at BrowserStack overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at BrowserStack as a Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 29%
Phone interview: 29%
IQ intelligence test: 14%
One on one interview: 14%
Skills test: 14%
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There was a first assessment on an online portal which consisted of aptitude + technical questions.
Then after a brutal shortlisting, you would be called on to their office. There was a coding round which was of a machine coding round for a question and after that if you pass you go to the Interview which was overall difficult.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q : Problem Statement:
This problem requires you to implement a log watching solution (similar to the
tail -f
command in UNIX). However, in this case, the log file is hosted on a remote machine (same machine as your server code). The log file is in append-only mode.
You have to implement the following:
1. A server-side program to monitor the given log file and capable of streaming updates that happen in it. This will run on the same machine as the log file. You may implement the server in any programming language. 2. A web-based client (accessible via URL like http://localhost/log) that prints the updates in the file as and when they happen and NOT upon page refresh. The page should be loaded once and it should keep getting updated in real-time. The user sees the last 10 lines in the file when he lands on the page.
Problem Constraints:
The server should push updates to the clients as we have to be as real-time as possible.
The server should not retransmit the entire file every time. It should only send the updates.
The server should be able to handle multiple clients at the same time.
The web page should not stay in the loading state post the first load and it should not reload thereafter as well.
You may not use off-the-shelf libraries or tools that provide tail-like functionalities.
We will be evaluating you for code quality, testability, modularity, corner cases, etc.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at BrowserStack in Jan 2026
Interview
total 3 rounds of the interview
round 1 : it was the how well you know about you current projecct no DSA and language based questions
round 2 : machine coding round
round 3 : HM
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at BrowserStack (Goregaon East) in Sep 2025
Interview
On-campus Placement drive by BrowserStack Catapult (Placement-linked internship) Role: Software Engineer - Backend.
1. Online Assessment:
The first round was OA, it had basic to medium level MCQs related to Web (HTML, CSS, JS), OS, CN and Situational questions. I cleared the OA and was called on-site for further rounds.
2. Machine Coding:
This was an on-site round, we were called at the office. The Problem was classic tail -f like log streamer using web sockets. I managed to pass this round as well.
3. Interview with DoE:
This was the last round, the director of engineering interviewed me. The interview was completely based on my resume. They asked me about my Internship experiences, projects, strengths-weaknesses, etc. Overall it was a tech+behavioral round.
1 week later, results were announced by the placement cell, I am selected!
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
A project is supposed to be delivered in near week and a lot of work is yet to be done, being a team lead how would you handle this situation?
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at BrowserStack (Goregaon) in Sep 2025
Interview
First there will be an online assessment mostly technical MCQs which is easy and straightforward. Then they will mostly ask you to build a server side API prototype, for me it was to implement 'tail -f' unix command via sockets for real time updates of a log file. I got 2 hours to do that from scratch - with no AI help although you CAN google for simple queries.
tip: Don't use AI to build everything from scratch. Do you homework on web dev, computer networks, Web Sockets and actually understand the working. I dont think they either ways expect from you a full production ready frontend+backend. Just make whatever they ask honestly and with clarity most importantly. Walk through your logic and code - be clear and talkative.
Saying this because I did just that - communicate, even though i didn't make the frontend just made bare minimum backend and explained my logic code reasoning and got shortlisted.
After that you will be interviewed either alone or in pairs. I got rejected at this last round. Tip for this round: Explain/show your projects and resume; properly do your homework.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mostly about my projects and resume, practice your soft skills, be ready for rapid fire questions.