I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Chewy (Boston, MA) in Sep 2024
Interview
I applied on linkedIn. My first round was a recruiter call. She asked me some typical questions about my experience. Next round was a live hackerank with a Senior Engineer. It was a LC medium array problem.
One week later my recruiter called me to schedule the final round.
This was a panel interview consisting of three technical rounds and one behavioral with my would be manager. Behavioral was questions about my resume and "tell me about a time" questions. Two of the technical rounds were LC medium/easy, with a few vocab questions about Java and Spring. Coding questions were another array problem and one binary search tree problem. The fourth interview was frontend focused, which ended up meaning implementing a class using JS and using async and await to consume an API and do some calculations with it. I struggled a bit with this one as I mostly work on the backend, but my interviewers were fine with me looking up documentation so I ended up solving the problem.
The following week I received an offer. Overall if you can do the blind 75 on LC and know the fundamentals of the stack you will be working with you should be fine.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the final keyword and static keyword in Java
I applied online. I interviewed at Chewy in May 2026
Interview
Applied online and received a call about 3 weeks later. We first had a screening phone interview where they asked things like "Why chewy".
About a week later there was a technical round scheduled with an engineer on the team. During this round I was presented with an easy hacker rank question and was able to move forward.
The final round was a set of 4 interviews, 3 of which were technical and 1 behavioral. The technical interviews involved debugging existing applications and talking through the design of a basic CRUD application. Each of these interviews was 1 hour long and they spanned over 2 days.
Overall, everyone was pretty respectful and friendly throughout the whole process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Walk through the design of a basic CRUD application. Consider various trade offs of all the decisions you make.
I applied online. I interviewed at Chewy (Minneapolis, MN)
Interview
A phone call with behavioral questions about current work experience. Then a 10 minute multiple choice test with 20 questions about Java. Questions were on very specific parts of Java that I have not used before like Vector classes and different implementations of Vector classes.
On the initial call, the screener told me that the coding interview would be a series of coding questions on a certain skills-testing website, so that is what I prepared for. It wasn’t that at all— the interviewer plonked me down in an empty online environment that I wasn’t familiar with and basically said “build a web app, go” with very little guidance. I wasted too much time trying to figure out how to import different packages into the environment while the interviewer was very unclear on if that’s what he expected me to do or not. Then he said “time’s up” and was not interested in hearing any more about my thought process.