I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LA Fitness (Irvine, CA)
Interview
Face to face interview with sotware development manager, software development director, and a group of programmers.
Then you are given 1 hour to create a web application using Visual Studio that reads a database table and display its content in a browser.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to improve performance of a web application.
How to reduce deadlocks in a DB.
Write an ASP.NET web application that fetches and display a collection of data items from a database table and be able to click on an item in the collection and dislay its metadata.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at LA Fitness (Irvine, CA) in Mar 2013
Interview
No initial phone interview. I was contacted by a recruiter and scheduled for an in person interview. The interview lasted about 3 hours including a 90 minute coding test. The test is of a practical nature and you are left on your own with internet access to finish it. Very easy. I then had 2 interviews. 1st was a technical interview with 4 other developers. The questions were very basic and easy. 2nd session was with 4 development managers. Typical manger type questions in these, not very technical but some design type questions.
After that interview they decided to make an offer and I had to go back to meet with the CIO to have a final interview and negotiation of the offer.
Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at LA Fitness with 2.5 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 54% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at LA Fitness overall takes an average of 8 days.
Common stages of the interview process at LA Fitness as a Senior Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 25%
Group panel interview: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
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