Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Speechify with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 41% positive. To compare, the company-average is 53.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 27 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Speechify overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Speechify as a Senior Software Engineer according to 27 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 38%
One on one interview: 26%
Phone interview: 17%
Background check: 10%
Other: 5%
Presentation: 2%
Personality test: 2%
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Very impersonal and disengaged. I would not recommend it to anyone. They expect someone to write an XML parser from scratch without being able to look it up and without preparation in less than 45 minutes, And if you don't complete it, even though they said it doesn't matter to finish the assignment but to show how you work, they will not even talk to you.
Shameful interview process for a company which seems to be so interesting to work for.
Hard to say if that's just the FAANG-style interview which many companies nowadays seem to use or if it is a mirror of their culture.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement an LRU timed cache and an XML parser in 100 minutes, alone and with a screen recording. If you don't complete it 100%, you're out.
Almost everyone will have an online assessment, in my case not DSA, but a repo for you to do some refactoring and add some functionalities. Camera, microphone must be turned on. No human join the interview with you. You have to complete the requirement in 60 minutes and push to the designated gitHub repo.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a repository, do some refactoring, add some functionalities in 60 minutes
I applied online. I interviewed at Speechify in May 2026
Interview
I applied for the job and received an automated email one minute later with a technical challenge using AI.
They provided a large repository for download and asked me to keep my webcam and screen recording active for 90 minutes (probably for training AI models).
They didn't provide any tools. You had to use your own tokens for the tests for 90 minutes without knowing if anyone was going to see them. Basically, that's what happened to everyone who left a review here.
I understand and like pair programming with AI, but doing it this way is impersonal, probably the worst way, and zero privacy-oriented. You never get feedback. It's one of the worst things I've seen this year.
I interviewed at Speechify (Cairo, Cairo Governorate)
Interview
Weird and invading my privacy, was good in general but not smooth and didn’t feel good while doing it, they should respect candidates privacy, it’s very disrespectful interview , first project was screen recorded all the time even when entering my git password