Senior Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Handshake with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 44% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Developer roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 18 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Handshake overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Handshake as a Senior Software Developer according to 18 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 35%
One on one interview: 26%
Presentation: 15%
Group panel interview: 9%
Drug test: 6%
Skills test: 6%
Background check: 3%
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I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Handshake (Berlin) in Mar 2023
Interview
The interview process was long, about 5 weeks: 1. Interview with the recruiter 2. Technical interview to solve a problem online. 3. Interview with a manager. 4. Another technical inteview to build a small project and coment it with the rest of the team. 5. Talk with a team lead. After all this effort and work I was rejected without any notification or feedback. I was very disappointed with Handshake and how they treat the candidates.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a vending machine using Ruby and object oriented programming.
Recruiter Call, followed by a technical screening by the HM, Mix of Recruiter + Behavioral questions: Why join, a project where you had disagreement, You worked on something outside your responsibility.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why join, a project where you had disagreement, You worked on something outside your responsibility.
The process began with a standard recruiter screen followed by a four-level coding challenge. Unfortunately, the technical assessment was poorly structured. The requirements for each level were overly abstract, forcing candidates to make broad assumptions to pass the test cases rather than following clear documentation.
Furthermore, the coding environment lacked basic IDE features like IntelliSense. Requiring verbose code for complex, ambiguous problems without standard editor support felt unnecessarily tedious. I managed Level 1, but by Level 2, the lack of clarity made it difficult to stay engaged.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Something around timestamp based key value storage and retrieval. Then level 2 involved assigning priorities to each key and then retrieving the sorted list of keys and so on.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Handshake in Nov 2024
Interview
Standard tech interview with a take-home assignment. Not a leetcode brain-teaser but more basic code design.
Phone Screen
Technical Phone Screen
Virtual On-site
- Take home assignment, basic CRUD app
- System Design
- Behavioral
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical Phone Screen - Create methods to mock a vending machine. Vending machine should calculate change. User needs to call 2 methods, one to input change, one to select item, and 2 actions should be idempotent done in any order prior to vending items.
Virtual On-site
- Take home assignment, basic CRUD app
- Design a job board