J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 1 jour. J'ai passé un entretien chez Roku (Los Gatos, CA) en févr. 2016
Entretien
The first few interviews were standard. Asked standard questions ranging from how multi-treading works to bit wise operations.
I did have one interviewer who asked a question, that I could not understand his requirements. He wrote a bizarre function name on the white board and said I must use this to code my solution. I kept asking how does this function work, what is its return values. He got annoyed, refused to answer my questions and said every other interviewee understood his question and answered it without further information.
I tried to answer it a few times, but without understanding the requirements, and his refusal to clarify it, I decided not to worry much, since this was clearly intended to be a hostile interview. I typically avoid companies that use a hostile interviewing technique.
Another warning sign was that the manager described a very interesting job, but the engineers contradicted the manager and said the job was just an integration role, no new coding would be done.
After the interviews I feel that I dodged a bullet, and that Roku's culture and job would be a poor fit for me. I am hoping Roku's opinion will concur that I am a poor fit for them.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Asked standard questions ranging from how multi-treading works to bit wise operations.
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Roku (Bengaluru) en juin 2026
Entretien
Recruiter reached out via linkedin.
Had a really bad experience in the first technical round.
You walk into an interview hoping for a fair conversation. What you get instead is someone on the other side trying to prove they are smarter, louder, or more important than you.
They ask vague questions.
They interrupt everytime.
They make you feel small for not reading their mind.
I really regret appearing for the interview at Roku as it was really disrespectful.
I searched and found out that panel provide one to one interview prep and I think that’s why more than my actuall skills and knowledge he was interested in if I follow the same approach he teaches.
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It was supposed to be DSA but felt like panel is taking hiring manager round.
He was a also a senior engineer but acted like a manager.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Roku en avr. 2026
Entretien
Talk with Recruiter, tech talk and Hackerrank with Engineer. Engineer interviewer offered little feedback during an implementation discussion. I justified my selection as being best for a time-constrained interview and he agreed. The interviewer was playing around in my code editor while I was typing, causing distractions and additional errors in my work. Finally, the interviewer was extremely dissatisfied that I did not use the other option that I had discussed, and that I did not select Python when I was told to solve in any language.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Roku
Entretien
Recruiter called me and asked some general questions related to work experience, tech stacks etc. Later they asked about renumeration drawn from the current org: to which I responded saying 'need to check with HR regarding any NDA if they have pertaining to salary disclosure'. I also felt current renumeration being irrelavent question for next role and asked what's the comp. band that this role is entitled to. To which recruiter told without current comp. info, they won't be able to proceed further and rejected on spot.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Familarity with tech stack, work experience and salary.