I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Strava (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2018
Interview
My first phone call that got me into the pipeline talked about my history but that was from the recruiter. The devs that later interviewed me really didn't care about my background, were pretty informal, and just went straight into whiteboard questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They gave an array of numbers(elevations) and wanted to determine the first "climb".
The interview went pretty well, the hiring manager was easy to talk to. Waiting to hear back from them. Technical round I explained my project and then they asked a couple behavioral questions
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Strava (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2025
Interview
(1) Recruiter screen
(2) Hiring manager screen
(3) DSA-style question, LC easy-medium related to Strava's line of business
(4) Virtual onsite -- coding design, systems design (more of reasoning than a traditional systems design), hiring manager final
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Strava (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2024
Interview
Rushed process, the hiring manager gave short answers like she wasn’t interested in proceeding with the interview with understandable but if shouldn’t feel like that from the start. Not sure what some questions would have related to the job in hand, you want someone technical so that should have been the focus
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Strava with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 11 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Strava overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Strava as a Software Engineer according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 31%
Phone interview: 31%
One on one interview: 23%
Presentation: 8%
Other: 8%
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