Intuit Interview Experience for SWE Intern (2 Months) Off Campus

I applied for a Software Engineering (SWE) Intern role at Intuit with referral from codess.cafe community.

Round 1: Resume Shortlisting

In the primary selection round, resumes, academic qualification and relevant projects or works is the measure used for resume selection.

Round 2: Online Assessment (OA)

In this round, we tackled an online coding test. This time, the test consisted of queries related to dynamic programming and graphs, which assessed our expertise in general data structures and algorithms’ solutions such as linked lists, trees, graphs, binary search trees (BSTs) etc.

Round 3: Technical Interview 1

In the third round, I went through a technical interview that mostly centered on algorithms plus data structures. It started with me dealing with a medium-hard Leetcode problem about longest sequence in arrays then continued with questions from areas such as Operating Systems; DBMS, OOPS among others.

During my first technical interview, I managed to figure out the question related to the longest sequence array even though the interviewer gave me some clues. The core theoretical questions were understandable, and I answered them in a satisfying manner.

Round 4: Technical Interview 2

The last round was another technical interview which included a more difficult programming problem and theoretical questions similar to those of the previous round, only harder.Also,this time I was being interviewed by 2 interviewers.

The hardest among the technical interviews was the subsequent one; the question on coding was demanding one and I could not come up with the right answer in reasonable time inspite of all the effort put in by me. I encountered difficulty in arriving at a solution that would solve this problem .I also found myself unable to explain what went through my mind during that time to the interviewers.

Verdict:Rejected

Several days later after the final interview, I received an email notifying me that I had been unsuccessful in my application. It was quite disappointing for me but I knew there are some jobs which are demanding and Intuit needed some particular candidates that can be better in coding as well as in theory.

Lessons Learned

Even though the end result was not what I wished, going through the Intuit interview was quite helpful since it made me aware of both my positive and negative points in my personality as well as indicated some of my weak areas that I need to work on which includes , articulating my ideas well, and revisiting some core computer science subject’s advanced topics so that they become refreshed.

I am thankful for the chance to have an interview with Intuit as well as go through their selection process first hand. It motivated me into more hardworking of my programming skills as well as improving on problem solving abilities and theoretical understanding so that if there are any internship or job opportunities in the future I can be ready.