Walt Disney Company Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
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Walt Disney Company
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Average Positive experience No offer 5 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Recruiter call Phone screen Onsite Group
Interview formats
Coding Technical System Design Behavioral Other
The interview included a Hackerrank test, a chat with the manager, a live coding session, a system design discussion, a behavioral interview, and a meet and greet. I spoke with different managers and directors throughout. The vibe was chill, and the exercises were pretty easy. The system design part wasn't really system design, more like a discussion about solutions for data structures for nested operations in a calculator that separates operations by terms.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Debug a React calculator app, model data, and complete a TypeScript exercise to manage modifications in queues and consecutive queries.
Walt Disney Company
Software Engineer
Mid Average Neutral experience No offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Background check Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Coding Behavioral
The hiring journey involved a few steps: first, a quick initial screening, then a chat with a Senior HR person. After that, there was a technical discussion about my past projects. The process wrapped up with a final round that included five separate meetings covering technical assessments, coding challenges, and a meet-and-greet with the team. The whole thing took about 2.5 months from the first screening to the last interview, or 3.5 months from when I first applied. Overall, it was a good experience, and I got a better sense of the team and what they're working on. The recruiter coordinating everything was genuine, which was nice. They gave me some feedback after the final round, which was positive but not super detailed. It seemed like they were just trying to wrap things up on a good note.
Confirmed questions1 question
- In what ways do you envision integrating ML and AI into the physical modeling components of our operations?
Walt Disney Company
Software Engineer
Lead Average Positive experience Accept offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Coding System Design
The interview process started with a recruiter chat to go over my resume and understand my motivation for joining Disney. Next, I had a conversation with the hiring manager about my previous roles and technical abilities. Following that was a one-hour session focused on systems engineering, including coding problems and code reviews. The final stage was a two-hour coding interview where we tackled a challenging HackerRank problem with many edge cases, followed by conceptual problem-solving for various extensions, involving significant interaction.
Confirmed questions1 question
- What would be your approach to designing an e-commerce website?
Walt Disney Company Software Engineer Interview Questions
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“Given a binary tree, implement a function to determine if it is well constructed and return true/false.”
Read reports →“Solve a coding problem: given a list of strings, find the minimum string that covers all characters in the list.”
Read reports →“Which Linux command do you use to see how much CPU a process is using?”
Read reports →“Find all sets of three numbers in an array that sum to zero. Please provide the time complexity and test cases.”
Read reports →“How would you find all the unique strings in a block of text and give them back in an ordered list?”
Read report →“How many socks do you have to pick to get N pairs of black socks and M pairs of white socks, given a dark room with black and white socks, where picking wrong means death?”
Read report →“Could you find the product of two integer strings, processing one digit at a time?”
Read report →“For an array of numbers, what is the maximum difference between two numbers where the larger number comes after the smaller one? Please state the time complexity, optimize for efficiency, and provide test cases.”
Read report →“What's a way to speed up an SQL query that has many conditions linked with AND?”
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