Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Serato with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Serato overall takes an average of 14 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Serato as a Senior Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 33%
Group panel interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
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Basic data structure and programming questions, Then take home test.
The overall process is really enjoyable.
The interview can go deep as well (e.g. CPU hardware level discussions about concurrency).
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Serato (Auckland, Auckland) in Dec 2017
Interview
In-person interview for 30-60 minutes, followed by a take-home exercise which nominally took a few hours to complete, was given a week to do it, then a second in-person interview to discuss my solution to the exercise in detail.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Here is some sample code, make it do a certain thing by implementing this function (take-home exercise).