Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at HARMAN with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 56% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 28 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at HARMAN overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at HARMAN as a Software Engineer according to 28 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 24%
Phone interview: 20%
Skills test: 17%
Background check: 9%
Drug test: 9%
Presentation: 7%
Group panel interview: 4%
Other: 4%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at HARMAN (Vernon Hills, IL) in Sep 2013
Interview
1. Written Test
Create a hash map iterator
Binary Search
Algo to print 1 to 100, but replace 5 by five, 10 by ten and 15 by fifteen
2. Onsite: 3 Technical Rounds
Fibonacci Series
Find a loop in linked list
Number from 1 to 1002 stored in an array, two duplicates. Most efficient method to find the duplicate. And what other data structure would be good
Question on threads
3. Interview with VP
Personality related questions
How to improve join efficiency in huge tables
Technical interviews were not very tough but VP screening results is most denials. We proceed to different levels of interview based on the performance of the previous one. Recruiter said VP said no to my candidacy
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Unexpected Question: VP asked to give a situation where my opinion was different from what others said. The situation could be technical or non-technical
Onsite interview
2 Leetcode medium level problems, which includes DP and also binary search. Can be done in the given time. Solving the common Neetcode sheet can help a lot to clear these rounds.
Behavioural:
Common STAR pattern questions were asked
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA a lot and slight system design as well, going for API calls and more explanations
Interview is easy with only basic questions on react and js.Code sandbox and js fiddle is what you need . Just basic dsa question as to remove duplicates.Or find the frequency of letters.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Frequency question - Given an array find frequency of most occuring number.
Got Shortlisted and invited for the walkin face to face interview
Written test which includes based on jetpack compose library and data structure and algorithm questions.
The questions are in Kotlin and mostly multiple choice questions.