Difficulty
Average
Candidate-reported interview insights
Altera Software Engineer interviews, decoded.
Explore commonly reported questions, interview rounds, difficulty, duration, and candidate experiences for the Software Engineer role at Altera.
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Interview overview
Average rounds
2.4
Average duration
~44 days
Difficulty and candidate experience
Interview difficulty
easy9.2%
average50.8%
difficult40%
Candidate experience
positive66.1%
neutral30.6%
negative3.2%
Candidate-reported interview process
So, first it was a coding round, then a behavioral one. It started with a 30-minute online meeting with two people from different teams. Each person asked two questions, ranging from easy to medium LeetCode problems. They really prefer C++ and the problems were usually about dynamic programming and graph theory.
The interview had 3 rounds, each lasting about an hour. All rounds were technical, focusing mainly on coding problems. One problem involved a directed graph and finding isolated nodes, and another was about finding an optimal solution given space and time complexity constraints.
Started with a phone call from the hiring manager to discuss my interests and skills. After that, I was invited for an onsite interview. The onsite consisted of 3 rounds of technical interviews. Once I passed the onsite, I had phone calls with different teams to make sure our interests aligned. Finally, I received an offer.
Common Altera Software Engineer interview questions
A focused selection of the most detailed candidate-submitted questions.
- 1
Given a binary tree with numbers in each node, select nodes to maximize the sum such that if a node is selected, its parent and children cannot be selected. Return the sum of the selected nodes.
- 2
Find the height of a tree
- 3
Reverse a string in-place
- 4
What are your interests?
Interview question formats
Technical45.8%
Coding34%
Behavioral16%
System Design4.2%
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Interview information is based on candidate reports and may not represent the current official hiring process of Altera.