Skip to contentSkip to footer
  • Community
  • Jobs
  • Companies
  • Salaries
  • For employers
      Notifications

      Loading...

      Elevate your career

      Discover your earning potential, land dream jobs, and share work-life insights anonymously.

      employer cover photo
      employer logo
      employer logo

      McAfee

      Engaged employer

      About
      Reviews
      Pay and benefits
      Jobs
      Interviews
      Interviews
      Related searches: McAfee reviews | McAfee jobs | McAfee salaries | McAfee benefits
      McAfee interviewsMcAfee Senior Software Development Engineer interviewsMcAfee interview


      Glassdoor

      • About / Press
      • Awards
      • Blog
      • Research
      • Contact Us
      • Guides

      Employers

      • Free Employer Account
      • Employer Centre
      • Employers Blog

      Information

      • Help
      • Guidelines
      • Terms of Use
      • Privacy and Ad Choices
      • Do Not Sell Or Share My Information
      • Cookie Consent Tool
      • Security

      Work With Us

      • Advertisers
      • Careers
      Download the App

      • Browse by:
      • Companies
      • Jobs
      • Locations
      • Communities
      • Recent posts

      Copyright © 2008-2026. Glassdoor LLC. "Glassdoor," "Worklife Pro," "Bowls" and logo are proprietary trademarks of Glassdoor LLC.

      Followed companies

      Stay ahead in opportunities and insider tips by following your dream companies.

      Job searches

      Get personalised job recommendations and updates by starting your searches.

      Top companies for "Compensation and Benefits" near you

      avatar
      Amazon
      3.7★Compensation and benefits
      avatar
      Google
      4.5★Compensation and benefits
      avatar
      Meta
      4.6★Compensation and benefits
      avatar
      Amazon Web Services
      3.9★Compensation and benefits

      Bowls

      Get actionable career advice tailored to you by joining more bowls.

      Company Bowl sample

      Want the inside scoop on your own company?

      Check out your Company Bowl for anonymous work chats.

      Senior Software Development Engineer Interview

      26 May 2015
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience

      Other Senior Software Development Engineer interview reviews for McAfee

      Senior Software Development Engineer Interview

      23 Nov 2015
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at McAfee in Apr 2011

      Interview

      Telephonic, 3 rounds in F2F followed, one more telephonic by US team followed by Manager and HR. It went fine. Interview was not difficult. Overall the process took around 20 days.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      TCP/IP, Data structures, Binary trees,
      Answer question

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at McAfee in Nov 2015

      Interview

      Initially got a call and told they were interested in profile and I was asked to come to F2F the next morning. It started with a F2F technical round which lasted for about 45 mins. The technical questions asked were related to the skill set interviewed for and was mainly scenario based and performance improvement based. 2nd Round was the coding round where I was given 5 problem statement and was asked to implement the solution. this round took about 1.5 hrs and the 3rd round was again the technical F2F round which lasted for another 45/meeting mins. That was it for the day and there was another F2F discussion after 5 days and this was just the project briefings and expectation settings. After this was the HR discussion which went on for about .5 hours. The offer letter was released after a weeks time.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      scenario based and existing g project implementation
      Answer question
      9

      Senior Software Development Engineer Interview

      9 May 2015
      Anonymous employee
      Bengaluru
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at McAfee (Bengaluru)

      Interview

      Interview process consists of following rounds 1. Telephonic: Technical and High level work exp 2. Inside office 4 technical rounds + 1 written coding test on pen and paper (familiar algo questions)

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      A question based on Dijkstra's algorithm
      Answer question
      7

      Senior Software Development Engineer Interview

      31 Dec 2013
      Anonymous employee
      Bengaluru
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at McAfee (Bengaluru) in Dec 2013

      Interview

      It was employee referal. I had 1 telephonic, 1 technical, 1 technical manager and 1 HR. It started with telephonic round, more on c++ questoins : virtual destructor, constructors, virtual functions. Then next day i was called for face to face where more focus on linux kernel internals and asked to write a program to implement singleton pattern. Then after a week i got a call for technical manager round where questions are on network security and networking fundamentals. Then Final HR round

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Bit deeper into c++ but not tough, all standard c++ questions. Be prepared with networking basics, c, c++, data structures.
      Answer question
      1