Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at PIMCO with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 38% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 48 days to get hired, when considering 8 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at PIMCO overall takes an average of 38 days.
Common stages of the interview process at PIMCO as a Software Developer according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
One on one interview: 18%
Skills test: 18%
Group panel interview: 18%
Drug test: 9%
Personality test: 9%
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First round is speaking with the hiring manager, talked about position expectation, project overview. Second round is meeting with 3-4 team members for tech questions. Final round meet E level person.
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Ten minutes of experience review. A few Python related questions, like data structure, memory efficiency. And one mid level algo question.
Resume-focused questions and basic coding round. The interviewer was friendly and approachable, making the conversation comfortable. Overall, it felt straightforward and manageable, with a strong chance of clearing it. Happy to interview with them.
General chat about technology with some deep dive problem solving. There were two people with on being rotated in. The general mood and conversation was good exploratory. No complaints at all.
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A problem solving question regarding a clock face.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at PIMCO
Interview
5 interviews in total which was too much. Including an assignment. The first was a manager interview and then became more technical each time. While it was good to see other members of the team the questioning was similar and becoming repetitive until they found something you didn't know.
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Question 1
Java questions, Concurrent Hashmap, how they work and how they are concurrent?