Intuit Software Engineer Interview Guide

The first round of the interview process will consist of two parts: a HR call and a take-home online assessment.

1. HR Call: The HR call will be conducted by a member of Intuit's recruitment team and will be designed to help Intuit learn more about your background, experience, and qualifications. During the call, you can expect to discuss your previous work experience, technical skills, and your interest in the company.
   
2. Take-Home Online Assessment: After the HR call, you will be provided with a take-home online assessment. This assessment will be designed to assess your technical skills and problem-solving abilities. You will have a specified amount of time to complete the assessment, and you will be expected to submit your results by a certain deadline. (Note: Another firm that has a similar assessment is DoorDash, you check out some of the interview questions asked in the DoorDash Software Engineering interview, too.

The take-home assessment may cover a range of technical topics, including coding, algorithms, data structures, and software design. The assessment may be delivered through an online platform or by email.

• Why do you want to join Intuit?
• Why do you think you will be a good fit for the role?
• What responsibilities do you expect to have from your job at Intuit?

The second round will be a technical interview with an engineer. During the technical interview, you can expect to be asked a range of LeetCode-style coding questions. These questions may cover a range of topics, including algorithms, data structures, and software design. You will be expected to solve these problems using coding languages such as Java, Python, or C++.

The interview will be conducted by an engineer from Intuit's engineering team. They will ask you a series of questions related to your technical expertise and experience.

• Given a list of integers, write a function to return the maximum product of any three integers in the list.
• Describe a situation where you had to optimize the performance of a piece of software. How did you identify the bottleneck, and what steps did you take to address it?
• Implement a function that takes a string as input and returns the number of occurrences of each character in the string.
• Given a binary tree, write a function to return the maximum path sum. A path is defined as any sequence of nodes from some starting node to any node in the tree along the parent-child connections.
• Describe your experience with agile development methodologies. How have you worked within an agile team, and what do you see as the benefits and challenges of this approach?

The final round will consist of multiple interview rounds. These rounds will include technical interviews with engineers, as well as behavioral interviews with the hiring manager or a team.

1. Technical Interview: The technical interview will be conducted by one or more engineers from Intuit's engineering team. During this interview, you can expect to be asked a range of technical questions related to dynamic programming, C++, object-oriented programming, DSA, and programming in general. For example, a candidate was asked to build a front-end, back-end, or full-stack application using any resources at their disposal.
   
2. Behavioral Interview: The behavioral interview will be conducted by the hiring manager or a team at Intuit. During this interview, you can expect to have a discussion with the team about the projects you have worked on in the past, your work style, and your approach to problem-solving. The behavioral interview will be designed to assess your fit with Intuit's culture and values. You will be evaluated on your communication skills, your ability to work in a team, and your ability to adapt to changing situations.

• Can you explain dynamic programming and give an example of when you have used it in your previous work experience?
• How would you go about optimizing a slow-running C++ program?
• Can you explain the differences between procedural programming and object-oriented programming?
• Build a front-end or back-end or full-stack application using any resources at your disposal.
• Create an application that hits restcountries.com api and return a list of countries with several specific attributes including population, flag, languages, etc.
• Write a C++ program that reads data from a file and outputs a result to a file.
• Design and implement an object-oriented program to solve a real-world problem.
• Write a program that demonstrates your understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Can you tell us about a project you worked on where you faced a significant challenge? How did you approach the challenge, and what was the outcome?
• Can you describe a time when you had to collaborate with a team to solve a problem? How did you contribute to the team's success?
• How do you approach problem-solving in a team setting?
• How do you manage competing priorities and deadlines in your work?
• How do you handle difficult feedback or criticism in the workplace?

Want to prepare yourself better for this interview? You can spend some time in going through interview questions asked for the similar roles in big tech. Here's a link to our interview guides for Google Software Engineer and Meta Software Engineer.