Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at KnowBe4 with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 81.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at KnowBe4 overall takes an average of 12 days.
Common stages of the interview process at KnowBe4 as a Senior Software Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 20%
Group panel interview: 15%
Personality test: 15%
Skills test: 10%
Background check: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 10%
One on one interview: 10%
Presentation: 5%
Drug test: 5%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at KnowBe4 in Apr 2024
Interview
I applied online and the whole process took around a bit more than a month. First, I had a 20 min no video interview with an HR person to talk about my professional experience and the role. Then I had to do a 30 min Cognitive and Personality Assessments online test. Afterwards I had a 30 min technical interview with the team's Engineering Manager, followed by another 2 technical interviews (1h30m & 45m) with the manager and other software engineers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to get around working with an external API that is rate limited?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at KnowBe4 (Clearwater, FL)
Interview
I applied through an employee referral. The whole process took 2-3 weeks. I interviewed virtually online via Zoom.
Had a phone interview with internal Talent team member shortly after. Then follow with online (Zoom) interviews with two of the team members on the team applied for as well as the recruiter also.
Overall, the interview process was clear with great feedback/follow up throughout the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
An online coding question in a programming language of your choice and a system design problem.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at KnowBe4 (Clearwater, FL) in Oct 2021
Interview
Phone screen from recruiter, then another phone screen from the hiring manager of the team I was interviewing for. Then a 3+ hour virtual interview. A couple of calls after negotiating and then an offer.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Write an algorithm to determine if two strings are an anagram. Follow up on optimizations based on length of strings, error handling, refactoring, testing, etc.
Design a web app that could be used internally to calculate some statistics based on user input and build it all cloud native. Follow up about scalability