Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Real with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 18% positive. To compare, the company-average is 19.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 11 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Real overall takes an average of 13 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Real as a Senior Software Engineer according to 11 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 38%
Phone interview: 23%
One on one interview: 15%
Other: 15%
Presentation: 8%
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This is a strange interview experience. 30 minute call with a recruiter who asks you random software engineering questions at the end
You are given a code assessment through CodeScreen that is very open ended. They have some rubric that they base your code on but they don't describe at all what they are looking for. I didn't not move on because my code was not readable enough but somehow passed the other 4.
This is a truly bizarre experience and I would not invest more than a few hours into the assessment
Interviewed for a Senior Software Developer role. The technical round focused on multithreading and hashsets problem. I was able to solve both of them correctly and explain my reasoning clearly during the discussion.
Despite this, I received a generic rejection email stating they would proceed with other candidates. When I asked for detailed feedback, there was no response.
For senior-level positions, candidates invest significant time and preparation. A completely generic rejection without structured feedback reflects poorly on the hiring process. Transparency and professional courtesy should be standard at this level.
I applied online. I interviewed at Real in Feb 2026
Interview
Overall smooth structure and clear next step. There were total of 3 rounds (DSA, System Design, VP Round) and all of them are highly technical. Best part is each of the round is 45min long unless the VP round which was 1 hr long. For the DSA round one can prepare with Leetcode Medium questions . A huge shoutout for the HR and entire team for quick updates and clear instructions on next step.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1 Leetocde style DP question along with a little tricky follow-up. If you are wellversed in DSA, you can easily solve it.
LLD (No full code was required, only talking about how to proceed and choice of design pattern was enough)
HLD
Theoritical questions on threading, multiprocessing, async programming.
I had my first interaction with the company through a call with an Indian recruiter. There was no introduction or context provided at the beginning of the conversation. The recruiter jumped straight into asking why I wanted to work there, followed immediately by a coding exercise that involved creating an endpoint. I was told not to worry about completing the exercise fully—but unfortunately, I never received any follow-up afterward.