I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Intuit (San Diego, CA) in Jul 2011
Interview
It starts with a phone interview. Which is 30 minutes, and asked with basic Java CORE questions. Then you get invited for On-site, typical the interview runs about 4-6 hours, some times one interviewer, and some times 2 interviewers, each 30 to 45 minutes long. Questions ranges from Java Core, to J2EE, some spring framework, and ESB, and some architectural questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The question was:
Describe a way to design a highly scalable architecture that can freely pass messages between system systems, describe how to control the message flow, how to add security, and how to expand the design for new features. And describe various ways to transform the messages, filter the messages, and how to order the messages so that a sub system can properly order the message to be processed. The gotcha is that the messages will arrive out of order because multiple consumers, and how do you synchronize the processing so that messages can be processed in order.
I applied online. I interviewed at Intuit (San Jose, CA)
Interview
round 1 OA - SQL, BASH, 1 LC Medium
round 2 Recruiter screen - AI tools, how you use in your work, Behavioural
round 3 take home assignment
round 4 take home assignment review on why you did certain things
round 5 intuit handover
Started off with a coding challenge. Then a 1 on 1 where you are supposed to show the interviewer a personal project. The interview was pretty easy, but the questions were almost all AI related.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When have you leveraged AI in your work, either personal or professional
I had an initial exploratory screen with a technical recruiter who reached out to me. When I transparently stated my boundaries regarding senior IC leveling to ensure we were aligned, the recruiter became visibly defensive. Instead of navigating the leveling discussion professionally, they expressed frustration, accused me of cutting them off, and suggested I needed to do more homework on the company.
I chose to be transparent to avoid wasting either of our time. It’s disappointing to see a recruiting process that penalizes clear, efficient communication from senior talent, especially when other top-tier tech firms handle these exact boundaries seamlessly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Exploratory call with recruiter to learn about my background.
there were 4-5 rounds taken by uptimecrew in which they gave us plenty of time and each round was not much of technical which were of uptime dont know anything about final round didnt reach till that