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Verisign Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.

Based on 27 interview experiences · FREE TO READ

3.1 Rounds average
Average Typical difficulty
53.8% Positive experience

Candidate interview experiences

First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Verisign.

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Software Engineer Intern

Engineering · a year ago

Intern Difficult Neutral experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral

After submitting my resume and filling out the application, a recruiter got in touch and set up the interview. The first interview was technical, covering some resume-related questions, followed by more challenging technical interviews.

Confirmed questions1 question
  • Find the first non-repeating integer in an array
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Software Engineer

Engineering · a year ago

Entry Easy Positive experience Accept offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding

The first round was pretty straightforward, with easy LeetCode-style problems and a review of my resume. The second round was a bit more challenging, involving easy to medium LeetCode questions. Overall, the interview process wasn't overly tough, but it did take a long time.

Confirmed questions2 questions
  • Write a function to print the diagonals of an array.
  • Implement a method to check if a string is a palindrome.
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Software Engineer Intern

Engineering · a year ago

Intern Easy Positive experience Accept offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Phone screen
Interview formats
Coding Technical Behavioral

It wasn't too bad, first there was an easy hashmap problem and some basic time complexity questions. The second interview was more about matching you with a specific team, so they asked more team specific questions.

Confirmed questions3 questions
  • When you need to go through a list to find something specific, what kind of data structure would be best?
  • What are your thoughts on time complexity?
  • Can you tell me more about your background and how it relates to this team?

Verisign Software Engineer Interview Questions

Quoted word for word from Verisign interview reports.

How do you find duplicates in a list, and how do you find the nth duplicate in a list?

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Could you explain the purpose of StringBuffer or Builder classes?

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Can you explain when a Hashset would be preferable to an Arraylist?

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Explain the concept of PKI in as much detail as possible.

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Formats, difficulty and experience

Across all 27 Verisign interview reports.

Interview formats

Technical 43.1%
Behavioral 31%
Coding 22.4%
Presentation 1.7%
System Design 1.7%

Interview difficulty

Easy 14.8%
Average 74.1%
Difficult 11.1%

Candidate experience

Neutral 34.6%
Positive 53.8%
Negative 11.5%