Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Klarna overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Klarna as a Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Klarna
Interview
I had applied directly through the website. First round was a 30 mins Skype call with the recruiter, mainly assessing my interests and motivation for joining Klarna. After this, there was a short online test assessing analytical thinking. After a week or so, I got a call back from the recruiter saying that I'll be having a coding homework that I need to submit. The coding test was a business problem in my case and I finished it in a couple of days and sent it back. After evaluation of coding tests in a week, I was informed about two consecutive interviews - one with the project manager and one with a technical team member. These two interviews went for about an hour and a half. Two weeks later, I got a call from the recruiter that after careful consideration and comparison to other candidates who were interviewed, I was not selected.
I think the heartening part was that the recruiter made an effort to call back, even after not being selected and not send an automated email.
I applied online. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Klarna
Interview
Hate to say that, but this was the worst waste of time I ever had.
I applied online on their website. I received a reply from their HR only a month after that. They invited me to take an online logic test. It is pretty trivial and takes 15 minutes.
After week or so they invited me to a Skype interview with HR. It took about half an hour with standard HR questions about your background etc.
Afterwards they give you a code assignment, which you should complete in 7 days. I applied to the front-end position so the task was to build a small interactive web page. Nothing hard if you have done any decent web development. For me it was quite easy and I finished it in one evening.
After another week they invited me to a Skype interview with 2 guys from the dev team. Questions were about Javascript. Again nothing too hard, if you have at least some experience.
After another week they invited me to another interview with the team lead.
After yet another week they invited me to another 2 interviews, one with mid level manager and another with VP. Yes, at that point I started to feel that this is going nowhere.
All those guys asked me exact same standard HR questions, without any interest or emotion. Both team lead and his manager were quite unexperienced. Both of them admitted they worked on their positions for a couple of months. Actually they acted like it was their first day at job and they couldn't even answer basic questions about the team and work process. They tell you that they are like a startup but in reality I got a feeling that I'm talking to some big faceless corporation filled with "pointy-haired bosses". They say that their hierarchy is flat, but in reality I talked with people from 3 different management levels, and judging from what they said there are more managers in company than developers.
After yet another week I got the standard copy-pasted rejection email.
Overall I spent 2,5 months and didn't even heard any reason about why I was rejected.
I understand that some candidates just doesn't match some companies, but if you put candidate through 5 interviews and 2 testing tasks, you could at least spend 2 minutes to write something meaningful about why you feel he doesn't match.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard javascript questions about scope, context, closures, prototypes, inheritance etc.
4 rounds of interview. One online IQ test. Same test again with an additional programming test (mcq) when you go for onsite interview. First interview is with recruiter like where do you want to see in 5 years etc. Then technical round with problem solving skills and interview on your previous experience. And finally one interview with management.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
programming test has a very wide range of questions.