I applied through college or university. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Qualtrics (Provo, UT) in Dec 2014
Interview
The interview experience was a very long process. Started with a phone interview which went well and was mostly about my experience. I was told I would hear back in a day or two, took much longer. I was finally contacted to come in for an on-site interview. This was about 3 hours and was extremely technical. During the interview was a pleasant experience. They were good people (overall worked with 6 different engineers) and it felt not a whole lot like an interview but more like a team. They corrected me on some of my mistakes and I corrected them on some of their mistakes. Exhausting but that was fun. Again was told I would hear in the next day or so. Week or two went by and finally they said they were "going another direction." I thought that was the end of it but then was contacted by the recruiter again and asked if I was interested in a very similar job. I said I was and therefore had a video interview which was fine and was a very good guy but he did it at his house (I blame Qualtics for that one and not the interviewer) which was distracting with his child crying and wanting attention and seemed very uncomfortable for him. After a week of waiting again on the recruiter they wanted me to come in for another 3 hour interview on site (even though my previous one was just a month or two before.) At which point I didn't like how they didn't value my time (getting to their offices takes about 3 hours each way for me which they were aware of 3+3+3 = 9 hours that I had already spent with the first interview and then just a month or two after they wanted me to do it again.) I forgot to turn down the interview and about a month later received an email with a job offer. This is on top of being told after the video and on site interview that the last step is talking with the CIO (I think that was the title, either way it wasn't a technical interview or a very lengthy one) so it doesn't look like that process exists anymore/followed.
Overall during the interviews was a enjoyable difficult experience but working with HR and the recruiters was a ridiculous experience and absolutely broken process. I was very excited at the prospect of working at Qualtrics but the interview put me off of their company as a whole which is very unfortunate.
Pretend you have to implement a white elephant gift exchange where everyone needs to give a present to someone else and not receive their own how would you do it?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Qualtrics
Interview
The whole process was remote. I was referred by a friend who works here.
1. Chat with recruiter
2. Chat with hiring manager (behavioral questions)
3. Coding Question on hacker rank
4. System Design question - interviewer didn't turn on camera, said very little throughout the process
The recruiter told me that they had been slow in making a decision, that they will get back to me. They never got back to me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time that you made a mistake. How did you handle it?
Started with a Recruiter screen - overview about company
ML Knowledge - basics of LLMs and your relevant projects
LeetCode - two basic easy and med leetcode problems
Takes a long time to hear back after each round - better to reach out after each round to ask about next steps.
First step is recriuter screen. Then 45 min technical with a software engineer, final round is 90 min technical and 30 min behavioral. They will have you schedule them on a web service called goodtime. Interviewer was very friendly.