Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Roku (San Jose, CA) en ene 2021
Entrevista
I applied this position online in mid January, and got response to ask me schedule the first round interview with hiring manager within 2 weeks. After that, my virtual onsite interviews were also scheduled within 2 weeks. The team move really fast.
The role is in search team and every interviewer is from that team. So I can ask lots of deep technical questions during Q&A. I think this is much better than general hire process in large companies, because you can ask specific questions and feel more about the team's culture.
I did enjoy talking with the team. Everyone is excited about their projects and has expertise skills in this domain. This is one of the best experience I've ever had of interviews.
Michelle Hayes is the recruiter for the role and she is so responsive and helpful. Since I'm not in Bay area, she gave me lots of tips about the culture, location, traffic near the company, and also patiently introduce the company's benefits.
The team didn't push me to make decision in short time and let me finish other onsite first. Not every company would do that so I really appreciate the team.
Finally I accepted Roku's offer and turned down others from big tech like Google and pre-IPO startups. I think the good interview experience make me feel the company has great potentials.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Two rounds of coding
One for general ML basics
One for design/projects
They would also ask coding when there is remaining time.
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Roku en abr 2026
Entrevista
Talk with Recruiter, tech talk and Hackerrank with Engineer. Engineer interviewer offered little feedback during an implementation discussion. I justified my selection as being best for a time-constrained interview and he agreed. The interviewer was playing around in my code editor while I was typing, causing distractions and additional errors in my work. Finally, the interviewer was extremely dissatisfied that I did not use the other option that I had discussed, and that I did not select Python when I was told to solve in any language.
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Roku
Entrevista
Recruiter called me and asked some general questions related to work experience, tech stacks etc. Later they asked about renumeration drawn from the current org: to which I responded saying 'need to check with HR regarding any NDA if they have pertaining to salary disclosure'. I also felt current renumeration being irrelavent question for next role and asked what's the comp. band that this role is entitled to. To which recruiter told without current comp. info, they won't be able to proceed further and rejected on spot.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Familarity with tech stack, work experience and salary.
I had recruiters from Roku reach out the whole year. I finally agreed to do a call. I had an initial call with a recruiter where we just talked about my past experience and what I’m looking for. Then I was scheduled for the next round with the hiring manager and was given zero context on what to expect despite asking. You should know that there be will coding with OOP on your first call with the HM despite no one saying anything about it. The whole thing was silly and pointless.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
The hiring manager asked me to do an OOP solution for a warehouse inventory system, where you need to track the type and amount of a product and find the nearest warehouse with products the customer is looking for. Despite this being an OOP and you being able to implement it in TypeScript or any language, and despite the HM not mentioning, your solution needs to handle concurrency and have locking. Then you’ll be asked what you’d do differently in a production environment. You’ll need to state the obvious like writing tests, using a DB, distributed locking etc. The way they asked the question was very silly and assessed nothing.
