Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Abbott with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 57% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 24 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Abbott overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Abbott as a Software Engineer according to 24 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
Group panel interview: 23%
One on one interview: 14%
Skills test: 11%
Background check: 9%
Drug test: 6%
Personality test: 6%
Presentation: 3%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
- Recruiter to review the details of the job
- Technical with the hiring manager or someone on their team
- Hiring manager to end the process
- offered role within a week
Great I have nothing bad to asay and I would reccomend to anyone who would love to do a great interview things are very great at abbott I think everyone shold work there.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Abbott (Barcelona) in Aug 2025
Interview
The interview steps were clear. A screening interview, a technical interview (no code), a technical interview (with code). They were asking basic questions of concurrency and golang programming during the technical interview with code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Print all outputs alphabetically [a,a,b,b,c]
- Identify the most frequent letter(s) output by the operations. [a,b]
(Describe tradeoffs in space/runtime efficiency for calculating these)