Splunk Software Engineer Interview Experience
Splunk · Entry level
Interview process
The process moved pretty fast, the onsite while intense interviewers were great and ready to help out.
Interview rounds · 4
- 1
Recruiter screen
Behavioral- Q1. Tell me about your experience.
- Q2. Walk me through your resume
- Q3. What are your location preferences?
- 2
Online assessment
CodingThis was done via HackerRank.
- Q1. Graph and tree traversal question.
- 3
Technical round
CodingI was asked two Leetcode medium questions in this round.
- Q1. Leetcode medium question.
- Q2. Leetcode medium question.
- 4
Final / onsite round
CodingBehavioralSystem DesignFor the behavioral round, I was asked situational questions.
Q1. Design a large scale distributed system.
Follow-up questions- How would you handle x failure cases?
- How would you handle monitoring, alerting, and logging?
- Q2. Tell me about your past experience.
Tips from the candidate
Brush up on tree and graph questions. Also be sure to review Splunk's product offerings to understand their positioning in the market. Bonus points if, in the design round, you can tie it back to how Splunk's products can be used as part of your solution.
Company culture
Company culture is very relaxed compared to other big tech companies.