I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Chewy in Mar 2022
Interview
There was a total of 4 stages of the interview process.
1st. Brief recruiter phone call where if the recruiter deems you alright, they will send you a link to do a java fundamental quiz
2nd. Java quiz was timed 10 minutes to complete and was 10-12 questions. At the conclusion of the quiz, you will see your results of whether pass or fail.
Recruiter called me maybe the day after I passed the quiz and scheduled me for a 1 hour coding interview with a software engineer.
3rd. 1 hour zoom interview and hackerrank. The question was easy difficulty dealing with string manipulation. Typical interview started with brief introduction followed by coding and then lastly Q&A. Engineer gave positive feedback and endorsement to move onto the final stage.
4th. Power/Panel Day which is 4 1-hour back to back interviews. The interviews were the following; Coding/Algorithm, System Design, Behavioral, and Debugging/Technical Q&A. The coding problem during the coding round was medium difficulty but a common one that you see on LC.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Java Quiz
1 hour interview - Easy problem (String)
Panel Day - LC Medium, System Design medium difficulty
I applied online. I interviewed at Chewy in May 2026
Interview
Applied online and received a call about 3 weeks later. We first had a screening phone interview where they asked things like "Why chewy".
About a week later there was a technical round scheduled with an engineer on the team. During this round I was presented with an easy hacker rank question and was able to move forward.
The final round was a set of 4 interviews, 3 of which were technical and 1 behavioral. The technical interviews involved debugging existing applications and talking through the design of a basic CRUD application. Each of these interviews was 1 hour long and they spanned over 2 days.
Overall, everyone was pretty respectful and friendly throughout the whole process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Walk through the design of a basic CRUD application. Consider various trade offs of all the decisions you make.
I applied online. I interviewed at Chewy (Minneapolis, MN)
Interview
A phone call with behavioral questions about current work experience. Then a 10 minute multiple choice test with 20 questions about Java. Questions were on very specific parts of Java that I have not used before like Vector classes and different implementations of Vector classes.
On the initial call, the screener told me that the coding interview would be a series of coding questions on a certain skills-testing website, so that is what I prepared for. It wasn’t that at all— the interviewer plonked me down in an empty online environment that I wasn’t familiar with and basically said “build a web app, go” with very little guidance. I wasted too much time trying to figure out how to import different packages into the environment while the interviewer was very unclear on if that’s what he expected me to do or not. Then he said “time’s up” and was not interested in hearing any more about my thought process.