Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at IMDb with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 12 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at IMDb overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at IMDb as a Software Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Group panel interview: 17%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 17%
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Coding interview using Hackerank. There are two main coding questions and two coding style survey. You need to complete them all in 105 mins. After that, there is a behavior questions.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at IMDb (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2018
Interview
I went through a campus recruitment event, so there were only two rounds involved: 1) a 30-min technical phone screen and 2) a 4-round onsite interview.
I was given an easy-level question during phone screen by the interviewer who was very nice and willing to communicate, so onsite was expected.
The onsite interview was well structured: 3 rounds technical interviews with some behavior questions, and 1 round pure behavior interview. I think the questions were mid-level. Most interviewers were very helpful in term of guiding me to the right direction.
I was quite impressed by this experience considering IMDb is actually part of Amazon, and I have read so many negative reviews about Amazon's interviews. The technical recruiter worked very hard to schedule interviews with a time constrain, and made sure we were all prepared for our onsites by setting up multiple call sessions. The only thing I would complain is morning session interviews were quite early, so really hard for people who have a long commute. Overall, I think IMDb is a great team within Amazon.
HR call
Online coding test
On site interview 5 rounds-1 will be tougher than the rest
Answer is given relatively quickly
You will be taken out for lunch in the middle