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Updated May 17, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Manager at Hulu
Posted May 17, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in Los Angeles, CA (took 6+ weeks)
After having had so many negative HR experiences at other companies, it was nice to finally see a company like Hulu that treated their candidates in a nice, welcoming, and respectful manner - not to mention their ongoing responsiveness.
I had a mix of phone interviews and in person interviews. Nothing too challenging - just asking about my background, general questions regarding the position, ideas, friendly chit chat, etc. In addition to HR and the hiring manager, they like to include peer interviews, which I had mixed feelings about. It was nice to interact with many people at the company though - I found them all to be enthusiastic, and at times motivating... but there was also a level of arrogance in terms of how hard they work/how hard it is to get a job there/how people take title cuts to come to Hulu. I had mixed feelings about what it would be like to work there and where the company would be five years from now.
Only frustration was that they seemed to have positions changing or going away late into the interview process, which is frustrating for candidates that feel like they just wasted their time and got hopes up for nothing.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Hulu
Posted May 16, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2012 (took 1 week)
First of all, I would say interviewing with Hulu's engineers was a very delightful experience (although I did not get through the interview :( ). They are very polite and professional, very patient when I tried to think and approach the problem. Their HR was also very responsive.
I got the first round phone technical interview around one week after I submitted my application on LinkedIn. The interview lasted for 45 mins. 20mins before the interview, they sent me two code samples. The interviewer discussed with me about the samples (what the code did, what was the output, how to improve the code). Later on, I was asked to write code using a google-doc-like tool.
One day later (yes, very quick!) I was told that I passed the interview. The second round interview was still a phone technical interview. It also lasted for 45 mins. I was told to implement a LRU cache algorithm. My answer was mediocre. Three days later, I was rejected by emails.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer Intern at Hulu
Posted May 3, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in Los Angeles, CA (took 4+ weeks)
They emailed me to setup an interview time after submitting my resume at a college career fair. The first engineer I talk to was very nice and helpful. He helped me through the program when I had questions. The second phone interview, the call was late and rushed towards the end. I never heard back from them and emailed the recruiters a couple times. Horrible job on their part and wouldn't advise people to apply here.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Hulu
Posted Apr 30, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Los Angeles, CA (took a day)
The interview process consisted of two technical interviews. In the first interview, I was asked some general questions about software development concepts. And then I was asked to look at some code and discuss what was going on. The second interview was focused on algorithms. I was given a few problems and asked to describe how I would approach solving them. Specifically, I was asked what data structures and algorithms could be used and was asked to compare different approaches. Based on the interview and their answers to my questions, the work place seemed to be very fast paced, mostly individual work or small teams.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Hulu
Posted Mar 27, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took 4+ weeks)
2 phone interviews, 1 onsite
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Software Developer Intern at Hulu
Posted Mar 18, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 (took a day)
A day before the interview, the recruiter informed me that I was to get code samples 20 minutes prior to the interview, and that such samples would be involved during it. This gave me a good sense of what to expect, and although I actually got the samples 5 minutes into the interview rather than 20 minutes before it, they were not amazingly challenging to walk through (not that they were cakewalks either, though).
The main questions the interviewer asks include what your interests are, what kind of work you've done in the past, and what kind of work you're doing now. In regards to the code samples, the interviewer asks you what name would you give to the unlabeled methods provided, how you would improve on them, what are the advantages of their current implementation over your proposed improvements and vice versa, and so forth. I would say the main challenge didn't really lie in how the code samples work, but on the improvement and comparison questions. One of the samples they gave me, however, was quite long, and, as such, was a little tricky to walk through. My advice if you see anything like that would be to carefully walk through the code, noting the purpose of all the methods involved (effectively, decipher the code piece-by-piece), to answer the interviewers question regarding it. This is regardless of how long you think it will take you to walk through the code, as the main idea is that the interviewer learns more about how you think.
From what I could tell from my interview and my further discussions with the recruiter, the software developers at Hulu seem highly proficient at what they do, and are very helpful in terms of informing you of what kinds of positions at the company you may want to take a look at, based on your interests and expertise. I also found the recruiter to be very helpful, as she was able to respond to my e-mails in a timely fashion (for instance, she responded almost immediately when I sent her an e-mail about my code samples not arriving in my e-mail inbox about 10 minutes before the actual interview).
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Skills Test and a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Hulu
Posted Mar 13, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took 3 weeks)
NOTE: I am not going to give away the exact questions that were asked. However, I will try to give enough details that will help with your interview preparation and also give you a sense of what to expect.
Application:
I applied online and one of the recruiters contacted me after a couple of weeks. I had two technical phone screens and an onsite interview.
First phone screen:
Shortly (~20 mins) before the first phone interview, the recruiter sent me a pdf file with code for two programs in it. The recruiter asked me to read and understand what the code does before the interview. For the next 20 minutes I read the programs. The first one was very simple string manipulation program (took about 5 mins to understand) while the second one was a bit more involved (took about 15 minutes to understand).
During the phone interview, the interviewer asked me what the program does and how I would improve it.
Then I was asked to write a small program in an online collaboration tool (which the interviewer had access to). Again, it was a relatively simple program related to string manipulation.
A couple of days later, the recruiter emailed me that I did well in the first interview and that they would like to do another phone screen.
Second phone screen:
The interviewer asked me a design question (i.e The question was related to designing a suitable data structure(s)) for a specific task. The interviewer gave all the details on what the task is and what the requirements were). This was not too complicated but it would require a good understanding of some basic data structures and algorithms (HashTables, Priority queues/Heaps and linked lists (single v/s double), and basic search structures like binary search tree. Nothing too complicated.
A couple of days later, I was invited for an onsite interview.
Onsite Interview:
I met with four engineers (for 1 hr each). In each interview, I was asked one coding question and one design question. The coding questions were not too complicated (i.e they do not require any 'aha!' insights - like the questions some of the other companies ask). However, the design questions were a bit intense. The design questions were related to the work currently being done by the team I was interviewing for (just simplified versions of some of the real problems they solved). I did a reasonable job here but now that I look back, I probably said gave some totally ridiculous answers :). The engineers were very polite and extremely nice. They were very understanding.
[My advise to anyone applying is to focus on your coding skills first and once you know the team you are interviewing with, do some research in the areas and educate yourself. Read the white papers, look at any open source implementations etc..If you are a complete novice in that field, don't bother applying - because you will certainly fail the interview!]
The recruiter called me a couple of days later and politely told me that I did not make it !. I felt dissapointed but again, the whole experience made me respect Hulu a lot more. It has incredibly smart and good engineers and excellent recruiting team
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Marketing Manager at Hulu
Posted Feb 29, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Los Angeles, CA (took 1 week)
I got a call from their recruiter back in 2011. We chatted about a position but it wasn't the right fit so nothing came of it. I saw something open up months later and got back in touch with the same lady. The recruiter (can't mention names here) is very nice, energetic, knowledgeable and professional.
The team I interviewed with - 3 different marketing people-- seemed very driven, smart and happy. I had the impression that they wanted someone more tactical (and I'm more of a product marketer and more on the strategy side) so I was pretty sure it wasn't a good fit. But of course, Hulu is a great brand and I would have taken the position as a growth opportunity and a springboard for other positions there. I heard the same feedback from the recruiter (they need more tactical hands on experience) on the day she'd promised to get back to me.
In all, the company seems happy, professional and very young. They are awesome. I will keep using Hulu just because I met the awesome people behind the brand. If you are looking for a good place to grow, definitely take the interview and try to kick butt at it. Good luck!
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Software Development at Hulu
Posted Jan 4, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 in Seattle, WA (took 5 days)
1/2 hour call with recruiter about positions and company details. She then scheduled the first phone interview with some code sent to me to analyze. A second interview to solve an algorithmic question.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Project Management Interview at Hulu
Posted Dec 12, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 (took 3 weeks)
Sent in my application, waited a few weeks, got an email back from the recruiter who said they wanted to do a phone interview with me, did the phone interview, got a rejection email back the next day
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