I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Qualtrics (Provo, UT) in Feb 2014
Interview
I first had a call with a recruiter that asked about technical experience and different projects that I had already worked on. His questions were very basic. After that I was brought on site for a 3 hour interview where I met with a total of 6 engineers in pairs that asked me various programming questions and had me solve different coding problems on the whiteboard. The different engineers were very friendly and asked questions to understand my thinking process and to make sure I had made the correct decisions about how to solve the problem. They let me code in my language of choice and iterated on the same problems to make them more difficult. A week or so after this interview I received a phone call from the head of engineering so that he could get to know me a little more and decide if I was a good culture fit. Shortly after this call the recruiters contacted me to discuss an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Design a system that could be used for a public library
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Qualtrics (Provo, UT)
Interview
It was a multi stage interview process. I thought I was interviewing for a front end developer job but when we got to the final interview, they said it was for some algorithm job. I don't remember the title but it wasn't the job I applied for. Other than that, Qualtics is a super cool company. I might apply again someday
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked a couple algorithm questions but I don't remember the details
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Qualtrics in May 2015
Interview
I recently read that Qualtrics is looking to add 100 engineers to their Seattle operation, and a contact at the company said that they've hired quite a few recent graduates, so I decided to apply. I was put in touch with a recruiter the same day I sent in my resume/cover letter, and we scheduled a non-technical interview that week.
The recruiter and I got along well and had a pleasant conversation, and I was looking forward to scheduling a technical interview to write some code with the engineers. After the non-technical screen, the recruiter sends the resume/cover letter with initial interview notes to the engineering team, who decides whether to move forward or not. I got a call a few days later from the recruiter who regrettably informed me that the engineers didn't want to continue with me.
I appreciated the phone call, and we chatted a bit longer when I asked if he could tell me what I was lacking for the second interview. Apparently it's a big deal for the engineers that everyone had a 3.0 or above in college, so my 2.88 didn't cut it, and even with an internship (and several on-campus part-time jobs to pay for school), I didn't have enough demonstrated experience for them to be comfortable with taking the risk. I would have liked an opportunity for a technical interview, but if a high GPA in college is THAT important to the Qualtrics team, I probably wouldn't have been a fit, anyway.