I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Intuit (Bengaluru) in Dec 2012
Interview
The All-Women Drive: There were atleast 60 women candidates attending the interview. The 'first round' as they called it, took place at the scheduled time. Was an elaborate interview spanning close to an hour, covering a range of topics, from design to development details to data structures, u name it! It seemed to have gone perfectly well. The interviewer and I walked out of the meeting room and he asked me to wait for my next round. 3 hours passed, and they took their time to complete their interviews with all the candidates. Then there was an on-the-house pizza treat for lunch! A little while after that one of the HRs came over to me and did a 'psst psst!' and we stepped aside only for me to hear from her that i didnt make it.
While waiting there for that considerably long time, i got talking to some of the candidates and found that they were working on similar or exact same project (A financial product) ,in other companies, as the one the recruitment was happening for. I only wonder, if they had already figured out the desired qualification for the job (which is the experience on a similar project) why didnt they mention that in the JD, and why did they waste everyone's time calling so many people, holding them up for so many hours on a weekend! Meaningless!
Applied through referral after initially applying on the careers page. The process started with a recruiter screen discussing my background, tech stack, and role expectations. This was followed by a 1-hour phone screen with coding questions using the Glider platform. The onsite loop was around 6 hours and included a backend hands-on exercise, system design discussions, and deep dives into my solution and past experience. Recruiter communication was clear and timely throughout the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding questions (easy to medium difficulty)
Matrix-based path finding problem
String / hashing problem (similar to Unique Email Addresses)
Backend API design using a CSV dataset
Questions on scalability, system design, and design trade-offs
Discussion around past projects and engineering decisions
Online technical coding sessions followed by three different interviews ranging from technical questions, behavioral questions. I had to pass the online technical session first before going to the next round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
AI experience such as the difference between classification versus LLM
I applied in-person. I interviewed at Intuit (Bengaluru)
Interview
screen, could include dsa, technical for an hour
craft round which includes a craft given, and a working applicaiton to be built around ahead of the interview. Then the panel questions on the same during the craft round. Followed by Technical round which includes dsa or lld or hld. behavioural with Hiring manager
