Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at PEAK6 with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 25% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 25 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at PEAK6 overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at PEAK6 as a Software Engineer according to 25 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 31%
Phone interview: 25%
Skills test: 19%
Background check: 9%
Presentation: 9%
Group panel interview: 3%
Personality test: 3%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at PEAK6 (Chicago, IL) in Nov 2009
Interview
The interview process consisted of an oncampus f2f interview where i was asked 1design question, 1coding question and 1testing question.
Design Q: Design classes to best represent the relation between these three items: a Flying object, a Rolling object and a flyingRollingObject. Basically involved showing a high level class diagram with inheritance. The interviewer asked me how i would handle the case of the the parent and child class having the same name i replied with a virtual function and he was satisfied.
Coding Q: Write a program in the language of your choice to find the height of a binary tree.
Testing Q: How do you test a turnstop that you typically find at railway stations in the US.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at PEAK6 (Budapest) in Apr 2026
Interview
There are many rounds, I completed the coding homework and then they gosted me
HR interview - about 10-20 minutes
Manager Interview (local office) - 30 minutes, basic introductions and motivations;
Coding homework (Hackerrank) - 1.5 hours;
------ next stages were only described to me, because after I sent back the homework, they never contacted me, even though I cleared all the tests and finished in 50 minutes instead of 90 minutes. ------
Manager interview - global side - about 30 minutes;
offline interview afternoon in the office, which contains: coding again in front of others for 1.5 hours, 30 minutes design test, and other manager interview for 30 minutes
Had an initial call with a director , discussed some high level tech and experience, second stage was live coding challenge where you shared your screen and worked through a problem
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
questions on bits of tech that i had used, coding challenge didnt go as well as i expected
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at PEAK6 in Sep 2022
Interview
Online assessment, 2 round phone interview, then 4 hour final round all virtual. OA was relatively difficult. Phone interview and final round were both technical and behavioral. Scheduling the interviews was frustrating and required several emails, and the entire process took almost 2 months.