SoftLayer interview questions
Updated May 21, 2026Difficulty
Easy
Experience
Mostly positive
How others got an interview
- 20%Employee referralEmployee referral
- 12%RecruiterRecruiter
- 10%Campus recruitingCampus recruiting
- 3%OtherOther
- 3%In personIn person
Interview search
67 interviews
SoftLayer interviews FAQs
- Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at SoftLayer as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Financial Analyst and Server Build Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Server Build Technician and DC Technician roles were rated as the easiest.
- The hiring process at SoftLayer takes an average of 67 days when considering 5 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Financial Analyst had the quickest hiring process (on average 14 days), whereas DC Technician roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 120 days).
- Common stages of the interview process at SoftLayer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 36%
Background check: 21%
Skills test: 14%
Drug test: 7%
One on one interview: 7%
Presentation: 7%
Group panel interview: 7%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
- Server Build Technician(41) ;
- Data Center Technician(20) ;
- Datacenter Technician(11) ;
- Customer Systems Administrator(6) ;
- Software Engineer(5) ;
- Customer Support Technician(4) ;
- SBT Technician(4) ;
- Software Engineer I(4) ;
- Cst(3) ;
- Inventory Technician(3) ;
- Datacenter Technician (Server Build Technician)(2) ;
- Regional Sales(2) ;
- Security Engineer(2) ;
- Server Build Technician III(2) ;
- Software Engineer II(2) .
