Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Philips with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 9 days to get hired, when considering 12 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Philips overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Philips as a Software Engineer(Internship) according to 12 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 31%
Group panel interview: 19%
Presentation: 19%
One on one interview: 13%
Drug test: 13%
Skills test: 6%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Philips (Boston, MA) in Oct 2019
Interview
The interviewer asked about my background, then asked about the basic operations of the linked list. Then I implemented some basic operations on the paper. We also discussed how to print reversed linkedlist and how to actually reverse a linkedlist.
I got invited a virtual assessment (Hirevue) 3 days after I applied. It said it would be a video assessment but it was just written assessment. There were questions and I type answers.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Philips (Bengaluru) in Apr 2025
Interview
The first round was online assessment round consisting of 2 dsa questions and aptitude questions.
The second round was interview round. In which the technical interviewer asked very basic questions about fundamental cs concepts and gave a few simple coding tasks.
The final round was HR round. In which HR interviewed me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
introduction, what is C, difference between struct in C vs struct in C++, write class in C++ with oops concepts, what is namespace, questions about the project written in resume.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Philips (Bengaluru)
Interview
Interview process was through an Ideathon Out of 193 team 50 team were shortlisted and we had to present our project to the philips team.Out of which 6 teams were given goodies and Internship opportunity at philips.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain about the project that you have done for the Ideathon ?