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      Software Engineer Interview

      19 Nov 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA

      Other Software Engineer interview reviews for Qualia

      Software Engineer Interview

      22 Jun 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Qualia

      Interview

      After I set up my interview, I read through all the feedback on Glassdoor. I had hoped that maybe people were just upset about not getting an offer, but I found all the feedback on here to be really accurate. Others have stated that some of the problems are building a weather app, completing a snake game, building a piano application, and hacking a website. There are now new problems such as completing a Brick Out game (draw the paddle and ball, animate the ball, do collision detection), and building a stock ticker application (use a given library to search, display, and update stocks). There is nothing complicated about these problems, they seem to just be looking at how fast you can complete them. Every coding exercise has bonus tasks, and you will have to complete all of them to get an offer. The interviewers acted like they did not want to be there. They asked questions to start their rounds, but didn't seem to care what I said, often trying to cut my answer short, and never asking follow-up questions. Every interviewer I had tried to cut their round short, and not give me the full time to ask questions. They were not good at answering questions, and I had one interviewer who would only give a one sentence answer no matter what I asked. Most interviewers did not pay attention to what I was doing. I could hear them typing on their keyboard, and doing other work, as I worked through the problems. Even when I completed the problem, I was just ignored, and the interview continued until the 45 minute timer was up for the problem. I read on here that if they don't like what you did in an interview round, they won't proceed to the next. I kept hoping they would cut off my interview, but they never did. The way they schedule the interview consumes your whole day. There are three technical rounds, and a behavioral round, but they put long "breaks" in between. I assume this is to accomodate their employees with scheduling, but it really wastes the candidate's time. I wish they were up-front about their technology stack, especially having asked the recruiter before the interview. It's disappointing to be going through an interview, and hear everyone talking about working with MeteorJS. None of my interviewers talked about wanting someone who could lead, mentor, or design applications, they just wanted someone who could crank out code with their tech stack. There was not even a design round in the interview. This is not a company I would recommend to anyone.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Describe a project you enjoyed working on. But don't take too long because we don't really care, and aren't going to ask any follow-up questions.
      Answer question
      5
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualia (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2025

      Interview

      DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS COMPANY! You will waste hours of your life for nothing in return. They have no respect for your time, they command 4hr interviews as if you are disposable and ask you these super long assignments that you have to finish on time. If you miss one little use case, you are immediately rejected. If you ask flexibility on this one little thing, you are immediately rejected. They don't understand development at all, the whole engineering team is run by teenagers who think they know it all. They will reject you regardless of how far you are in the interview. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS COMPANY!

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Provided a coding assignment with absolutely no flexibility and assessed nothing about your software experience.
      Answer question
      2

      Software Engineer Interview

      15 May 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Qualia

      Interview

      The interviewer on the phone was quite rude. No greetings, just straight into the questions. Got major condescension vibes. I would not trust this company with a ten foot pole

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What kind of Asian are you?
      Answer question
      3