Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Scale with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 20% positive. To compare, the company-average is 37.4% 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 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Scale overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Scale as a Senior Software Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 57%
Skills test: 29%
One on one interview: 14%
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Interesting tech screen,, decent prep by recruiter. Final round had a lot of interviews.
Mixed experience overall with some intervieweers seeming distracted and disorganized.
I appear to have been ghosted after completing final round about a week ago. No word either way, despite reaching out to recruiting coordinator. No debrief after interview either
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Scale (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2024
Interview
Amazing company, but they didn't accept me. Super cool to see their work though. Wish I would've gotten it... The interviewers were very nice and super smart. They were experts in their field, one of them was Ruben Mayer who apparently will be joining Meta.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Scale in Mar 2025
Interview
Call with a recruiter, an online tech screen on a well-known coding interview platform, and then a meeting with the hiring manager. Then some more rounds if you make it past this. The tech screening is probably the worst I've taken part in - not hard just a bad experience.
For the tech screen, you jump on a call and are told to answer some questions that have a SUPER long description in a very short space of time. Just make sure you code quickly. They don't even seem interested in thought processes or communication.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Read long descriptions and write code extremely quickly.