This guide draws on 2 first-hand interview accounts from Hacker News. Candidates describe about 2 rounds on average, most often technical interviews, a take-home task and a phone screen.
These 2 writeups cover software engineering roles. All of them were posted under a forum handle, so we could not verify the authors’ identities.
unknown. 2 rounds. Shared by Jemaclus on hn, 2019-11-21
1Onsite interviewsTechnicalEvery interviewer asked for some variant of a tree traversal.Covered: Trees, Tree traversal
2Final interviewTechnicalThe last interviewer asked for a knapsack solution.Covered: Knapsack problem, Dynamic programming
Senior Software Engineer
Not selected
Senior. 3 rounds. Shared by Jemaclus on hn, 2018-08-19
1Coding challengeTake-homeTraverse a web of numbered URLs to count dead ends and find the shortest path to the goal.Covered: Graph traversal, BFS/DFS, Shortest path
2Phone interviewPhone screenExplain how a paint-bucket tool decides which pixels to fill.Covered: Flood fill
3Onsite whiteboard sessionsTechnicalSix back-to-back sessions, mostly search problems, plus a box-packing question, with little context or time for questions.Covered: Search problems, Knapsack problem
What Crunchyroll is hiring for now
94 open roles in our index. Advertised pay floors run $132k to $195k (median $159k, from 45 postings that state pay).
What is the interview process like at Crunchyroll?
This guide draws on 2 first-hand interview accounts from Hacker News. Candidates describe about 2 rounds on average, most often technical interviews, a take-home task and a phone screen.
What topics does Crunchyroll test in interviews?
Commonly reported topics include Knapsack problem, Trees, Tree traversal, Dynamic programming, Graph traversal, BFS/DFS.
These guides summarize public, first-hand interview experiences shared by candidates. They describe the shape of each loop and the topics that came up, not a leaked question bank, and every experience links back to its original source. Processes change often. Treat this as directional prep, not a script.