Global Relay Software Engineer interview questions
based on 22 ratings - Updated 13 May 2026
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Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Global Relay with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 25% positive. To compare, the company-average is 29% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Global Relay overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Global Relay as a Software Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 50%
Skills test: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
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1st & 2nd interview that check the basics are good and professional 1 on 1 meetings.
3rd step (maybe it was 1 or 2 hours) technical interview with 3 heads of teams, shooting questions at you.
Then with this great experience & (irritation) & all of them looking at your screen, you are expected to solve a programming question.
There you conclude that you don't actualy want to work with neither of the three.
They didnt cooperate with me to succeed at all. They showed me that they will throw me under the bus at the first given moment. So I didn't even make the slightest effort to solve the given task.
So thank you for not hiring me. I don't want to be a slave with you
I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Global Relay (Vancouver, BC) in Jan 2021
Interview
My interview process included an intro HR call, followed by two technical rounds assessing frontend principles, and then I received an offer. It was a structured and efficient hiring process.
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Question 1
How does JavaScript handle concurrency with its single-threaded event loop, and in what scenarios might you run into thread-blocking issues in a frontend application?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Global Relay (Halifax, NS) in Sept 2024
Interview
3 basic programming questions (2 leetcode easy, 1 arguably medium but could also be considered easy), behavioral questions and digging deep into prior experience related to Java from what was given on the personal resume
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Question 1
Explain your solutions to the 3 programming problems from the Online Assessment (simple for loop question, trick was to start the counter at 1 instead of 0 I think)