Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Equinix with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 25% positive. To compare, the company-average is 49.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 8 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Equinix overall takes an average of 33 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Equinix as a Software Engineer according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 22%
Group panel interview: 17%
One on one interview: 17%
Presentation: 13%
Background check: 9%
Drug test: 9%
Skills test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Other: 4%
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Negative experience with an interviewer being very sarcastic and impolite. Interview questions were relatively easy with a focus on Java basics and data structure. I had to ask to repeat the questions a few times since the interviewers were struggling to speak English.
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Data-structure and algorithm. Java coding question
There were 3 rounds of technical interviews followed by final round of HR for negotiation of benefits and other terms and conditions. Lever of interview is medium to hard with a range of questions.
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Question 1
Software architecture and challenges. Technical questions
I applied online. I interviewed at Equinix (Sunnyvale, CA) in Oct 2023
Interview
No Code.
The interviewer was nice and friendly, they wanted a person who was familiar with CDN, network, cloud service development. He asked many questions about these listed topics for 40mins, and he introduced his team and two main projects.
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Hiring manager interview:
Introduction, Asked many domain knowledge about network, routers, OSI models, past projects.