I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at SLB (Berkeley, CA) in Oct 2016
Interview
It was an on campus interview and there were three interviewers from the software department. They went through my resume and dig into each project I did. They ask me a bunch of data structure questions and how I use them in each case. Then they give me an easy coding question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself
Describe your project
Basic data structure questions
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at SLB
Interview
There was a phone screen with the hiring manager that was mostly behavioral. The next round was an on site with 4 people (all engineers) and a group interview to end the day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked to write an algorithm to detect a palindrome.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at SLB (Urbana, IL) in Oct 2025
Interview
Leetcode problems within 45 mins.
I have done 2. The first one is easy.
The second one is middle, using the graph and DFS.
Also need to provide every solution's time and space complexity
I applied online. I interviewed at SLB in Oct 2025
Interview
I applied online; the interview was conducted by Karat Studio, which was a third party conducting technical interviews for SLB. The interviewer was quite friendly and explained the process pretty well.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Asked three complexity and data structure application questions,
Graph-based LeetCode-style question, another follow-up with slightly higher difficulty. Be prepared to define classes/methods and run your own test cases.
