Splunk Interview Questions

Application

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Splunk.

Interview

Process moved quickly, which I liked. I was called 1 week after I submitted my resume to chat with a recruiter and a few days after that I came in for an onsite interview.

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Interview

Typical bay area software engineer interview process involving nearly 10 interviewers with 5 or 6 rounds of interviews. Interview is based on algorithms & data structures, systems & multi threading.

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Good interview, the interviewing team was quite friendly, good questions asked, they let me know the next day that wouldn't be making an offer. Though, I had performed decently, that was expected since I just had 2 years of experience and a Master's degree for a role requiring 5 years of experience. I knew the work culture from a friend who had interned there before and he told me that they are very particular about the quality of their code (since they just have this one big data product.). The interview mostly involved coding questions which you have to solve on the whiteboard.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Splunk in October 2014.

Interview

There were two telephonic interviews in which they asked simple coding questions. Then there was on-site. There were 5 rounds of interviews
Round1: Implement CPP functionalites in C
Round2: Implement AVL tree
Round3: Lunch and then they gave a socket program, asked me to add enhancements to it. Lunch round was nice. My interviewer was very friendly.
Round4: Merge two sorted arrays and put the result in array1. Print a binary tree, each level in a new line
Round5: With manager. Why splunk? What offer you have and which will you choose and why? How do you debug following things? Memory leaks, deadlocks, high cpu usage, etc. in a very big complex system where printing logs etc is not feasible

Work culture was awesome. All preparations for the interview were excellent.

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Application

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4+ weeks. I interviewed at Splunk in November 2014.

Interview

I got a referral from a friend for a Software Engineering position on the client platform team (front-end). I got an call from the engineering director first where he pretty much just explained to me the breakdown of the company and what it does. I think because of my past experience and the referral, I got a onsite directly after that call, which I scheduled a month later so I can prepare for it.
The onsite experience was pretty great overall. I had 4 hour long interviews and a lunch with the engineering director for the team I am interviewing for. The interviewers were all super nice. They definitely did not try to ask trick questions or anything unreasonable. All of the questions they asked were very important concepts for JavaScript (I recommend reading a couple JavaScript books before interviewing for front-end positions, it helped a lot). So I was able to solve the problems for each of the interviews and had time to asked the interviewers questions about themselves and the company. Overall the conversation went really well. Definitely be yourself during those conversation. Tell them what your passions are, what your ultimate career goal is...

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Negotiation

Have not accept the offer yet but I am leaning heavy toward it. Compensation is very competitive.

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Splunk in April 2014.

Interview

I had a phone interview. The recruiter asked about some conceptual questions on Java and Python. He asked some general questions and then tell me to do a coding question next day. The question asked me to sort a log based on the date using two languages. It was not hard.

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Application

I applied through college or university. The process took a week. I interviewed at Splunk in February 2015.

Interview

The interview was for a Intern position. The questions asked in the interview were totally different from what was mentioned in the job description. Also there was a mis-communication between the recruiter and the interviewer regarding the schedule of the interview. The interview which was supposed to be cancelled by the HR was not communicated to the interviewer and he called at that time anyways , when I was in the middle of my class.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Splunk (San Francisco, CA).

Interview

Interview was good. Infact interviewers were very good. They put you in comfortable position in the beginning by asking you to tell about yourself. Explain some projects and by asking things on resume. Later they shared a screen and asked me to code for string reverse.

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Application

I applied online. The process took a week. I interviewed at Splunk (Berkeley, CA) in October 2015.

Interview

They sent an email linking to coding challenge (codility) - took 30 minutes but given one hour (they suggested that it should only take about 30 minutes), easy python stuff (they wanted the language to be in python) then a phone interview. I applied online from linkedin and heard back relatively quickly.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Splunk (San Francisco, CA) in November 2015.

Interview

After the first phone interview with JavaScript and CSS questions, I got the onsite interview request. I payed the ticket and flew to SF the day before interview, and around 12:00 pm when I was going to have a lunch somebody gave me a call telling me the interview tomorrow has been cancelled because they found other candidates. If they could have told me earlier maybe that morning, it was still too late to cancel my ticket. I didn't know people can cancel interview so late like this, without any formal notification.

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