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      Software Developer Intern Interview

      Mar 19, 2012
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Hulu in Mar 2012

      Interview

      A day before the interview, the recruiter informed me that I was to get code samples 20 minutes prior to the interview, and that such samples would be involved during it. This gave me a good sense of what to expect, and although I actually got the samples 5 minutes into the interview rather than 20 minutes before it, they were not amazingly challenging to walk through (not that they were cakewalks either, though). The main questions the interviewer asks include what your interests are, what kind of work you've done in the past, and what kind of work you're doing now. In regards to the code samples, the interviewer asks you what name would you give to the unlabeled methods provided, how you would improve on them, what are the advantages of their current implementation over your proposed improvements and vice versa, and so forth. I would say the main challenge didn't really lie in how the code samples work, but on the improvement and comparison questions. One of the samples they gave me, however, was quite long, and, as such, was a little tricky to walk through. My advice if you see anything like that would be to carefully walk through the code, noting the purpose of all the methods involved (effectively, decipher the code piece-by-piece), to answer the interviewers question regarding it. This is regardless of how long you think it will take you to walk through the code, as the main idea is that the interviewer learns more about how you think. From what I could tell from my interview and my further discussions with the recruiter, the software developers at Hulu seem highly proficient at what they do, and are very helpful in terms of informing you of what kinds of positions at the company you may want to take a look at, based on your interests and expertise. I also found the recruiter to be very helpful, as she was able to respond to my e-mails in a timely fashion (for instance, she responded almost immediately when I sent her an e-mail about my code samples not arriving in my e-mail inbox about 10 minutes before the actual interview).

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How could you improve upon this piece of code so that it runs more efficiently, memory-wise and time-wise?
      Answer question

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      Software Engineer Intern Interview

      Dec 8, 2013
      Anonymous employee
      Santa Monica, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Hulu (Santa Monica, CA) in Nov 2013

      Interview

      Got the 8 hour programming challenge, completed it (they say in their email that they're looking for quality code more than actual correctness), and landed an interview the following week. Interviewer was very friendly and we hit it off pretty well. The day after the interview, my recruiter contacted me and told me I had an offer.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Typical linked list questions
      Answer question
      4

      Software Developer Intern Interview

      Mar 29, 2013
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Hulu in Mar 2013

      Interview

      A few weeks after I applied on Hulu's job website, I got an email says they want to interview me. First, they let me did a 8-hour programming exercise. That wasn't too difficult, but makes me exhausted since I spent the whole 8 hours solving the problem. Then after a few days, I got an email says I will have a second round of interview. During the interview, the interviewer just simply introduced himself (without asking me any questions), then went straight to the question I am going to solve. I believe the question is some kind of "classic" algorithm problem. I did solve that using brute force method but failed to provide a more efficient solution after several hints from the interviewers. So the next day, I got an reject letter.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Maximum subarray problem
      Answer question

      Software Engineer Intern Interview

      Feb 5, 2013
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer

      Application

      I applied through university. I interviewed at Hulu

      Interview

      Phone interview, sent a code sample 20 minutes prior. Did not hear back after the interview, not even a decline.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Analyzing a trie structure and class that would form an autocomplete feature
      Answer question