Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Qualtrics with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 44% positive. To compare, the company-average is 53.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 151 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Qualtrics overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Qualtrics as a Software Engineer according to 151 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 42%
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 13%
Group panel interview: 7%
Presentation: 7%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 1%
Background check: 1%
Drug test: 0%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Qualtrics (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2017
Interview
I had a phone screen with them and the coding problem they asked was either you knew the trick or you didn't. It didn't test problem solving or algorithms just whether you had seen the question before.
1st stage technical online assessment, 3 problems to solve of different difficulty, 2 easy and one more advanced. 2nd stage 2 problems to solve during live coding session, not so difficult but you have to do it in most optimal way
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1 task was sth about creating words from letters of another if i recall well
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualtrics
Interview
The whole process was remote. I was referred by a friend who works here.
1. Chat with recruiter
2. Chat with hiring manager (behavioral questions)
3. Coding Question on hacker rank
4. System Design question - interviewer didn't turn on camera, said very little throughout the process
The recruiter told me that they had been slow in making a decision, that they will get back to me. They never got back to me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time that you made a mistake. How did you handle it?
I applied online. I interviewed at Qualtrics (Provo, UT) in Sep 2025
Interview
The interview process was lengthy, consisting of more than six rounds across multiple stages. I successfully advanced through every interview and reached what I was told was the final system design round. After completing that interview, I was informed that the team still did not have enough signal on my front-end expertise and requested an additional front-end-focused system design interview.
What stood out to me was that this additional interview was conducted by an employee who stated during the interview that he was currently on paternity leave. The interview itself felt disconnected from typical front-end system design discussions and focused on a scenario that I found difficult to relate to real-world front-end engineering responsibilities. The expectations and evaluation criteria were not clear to me, making it challenging to understand what was being assessed.
After investing considerable time across more than six interview rounds and receiving positive feedback throughout the process, the late addition of another interview and the outcome of that final round left me feeling that the process lacked consistency. Overall, I found the interview experience to be much longer than expected and somewhat disjointed in its evaluation of front-end skills.