Hotstar Interview Questions

Application

I applied in-person. I interviewed at Hotstar (Bengaluru) in March 2019.

Interview

The interview was pretty smooth. The recruiter reached out explained me the role , post which the interview was set up . There was a total of 5 rounds (1 online coding followed by 4 rounds of in person). Overall a great candidate experience which very few companies have been able to pull off

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Application

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Hotstar.

Interview

HR calls where the person takes one round of technical and evaluates you before letting you go to the next round, and then followed by team lead interview, once you clear that, then team head and then back to HR for offer if selected

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Application

I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Hotstar (Bengaluru) in March 2018.

Interview

They will make you wait and waste your time only to tell you at the end of an entire day that you are not a good fit. Prospective interviewees should ask what they want and their expectations clearly before attending interview so that they don’t waste your tome too. Suggest to stay away.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Hotstar (Bengaluru).

Interview

Very poor experience. I was called onsite but didn't actually speak with anyone face-to-face, until the end of the day. All the interviews were on Skype! Both interviews had questions which did not focus on the basics but on stuff that only a handful of people in the world implement, and still don't get it right.

In one interview, my solution was not accepted at all even though it covered all edge cases. No edge cases were provided by the interviewer. Looks like he was expecting a certain solution and did not think it fit to evaluate other solutions. I went home and checked - what I provided and coded was the textbook solution to the question.

In another interview, the interviewer lied about his credentials (re: open source contributions) and boasted knowledge of a number theory algorithm which does not even exist! Like seriously? Overall, seemed like a incredibly toxic work culture. This interview ensured I will stay away from Hotstar leadership for the rest of my career. They are as bad as they come.

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Application

I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Hotstar (Bengaluru).

Interview

Stupid theoretical questions.
When asked if I have any questions, I asked how they cache their videos and they said they don't. And then I opened hotstar app on my phone, and check for cache videos. Obviously, you're caching your videos, you have a download button to play offline.

Their Engineering team is a joke. They still work use Flash for web. Sounds like a toxic culture. The guy that interviewed me was claiming multiple threads share local variables stored in stack. What a joke. Sad one good app company from India is in such a mess.

Stay away.

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Application

I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Hotstar (Mumbai) in January 2018.

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I was interviewed at hotstar office. The process included a hackerearth test with some basic questions related to web tech followed by a technical interview. The interviewer seemed to be less experienced in front end and expected the answers which he thought were correct to him. Even the questions he asked had nothing to do with the product development activity. It seemed as if the questions of the interview were prepared from google.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Hotstar (Bengaluru) in May 2018.

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Total waste of time. They were not sure about why they are hiring. They called me for data engineering role. They don't use any data engineering related technology. None of the question they asked were related to data engineering. I would suggest to have 20-30 min telephonic discussion before going there.

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Application

I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Hotstar (Bengaluru) in June 2017.

Interview

Was contacted by recruitment agency. The whole process took around 1 week to complete. Interviewers were nice and friendly but HR involvement was nowhere in the entire process. Interviews were rescheduled twice and even at the venue, during and after the interviews, there was no HR participation. Hotstar is a relatively new team and they are planning to expand.

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Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Hotstar in May 2018.

Interview

It seems they do not even have good people to take the interviews. You cant just judge someone by simply asking single ds question directly from geek for geeks and then turn to ur laptop. Atleast have some process to inform interviewers how to take the interview.There is something called loud thinking that should be asked for. There is never an yes or no answer. But I guess if interviewer is not interested and just doing his pending work in the laptop during interview after keeping u awaited, its good to not proceed further with company having such talent.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Hotstar in January 2018.

Interview

First round will be pair programming your screen will be shared through Skype call and second round will be hackerearth round which contains around 10 MCQs and 2 mandatory programming tests and 3rd round will be another Skype call here they will test your basics and system design knowledge.

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Application

I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Hotstar (Bengaluru) in November 2017.

Interview

Firstly, on-site HackerEarth coding round containing one programming question.
Then two technical rounds, and
Hiring manager round, and
VP round.

Then it seems they have a debrief and finally HR round.

Technical rounds were over Skype and with reasonable difficulty level. The VP round was really interesting in terms of level of discussion I had and this actually convinced me to think positively despite so many negative reviews and low Glassdoor (currently 2.9 ) rating.

Hiring manager round was completely bogus. It was over call and I got the feeling that he is the one who wants to micro manage things, and can't think outside box. He asked questions related to how I would apply machine learning to automatically fix test failures. I tried answering with generic knowledge I had (un/supervised learning technique, neural network, weighted averages, feedback loop, etc) and he was unaware about these. (lol, asking questions when you don't even understand the subject).

I waited for 4 days for feedback then I reached out to the HR. I did not get offer as I won't be a good fit for the team. I politely requested to please give feedback to candidates (irrespective of decision ) to showcase professionalism.

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