Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Windsurf with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Windsurf overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Windsurf as a Software Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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OA with AI tools allowed, you can use any tool you want, and 2 technicals with data structures and algorithms questions are of medium to medium-hard difficulty. And the last round is behavioral
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Windsurf (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2025
Interview
Take home assignment followed with 3 onsite inteviews. Pretty easy onsite but the assignment was tough. Prepare with some python assignments. Also look into distributed functions. Onsite was mostly lc based and should be doable. They also asked for debugging an open source library and offering some potential solutions to fix sone open issues. But the process might have changes since acquisition
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Windsurf
Interview
Recruiter reached out before the OpenAI acquisition when they were still called Codeium. Product is cool and the talent is solid. Made it past the first coding round but not the second. I solved the question in the second round but didn't pass so the bar is high.
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