Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at AstraZeneca with 4 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 64.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at AstraZeneca overall takes an average of 38 days.
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at AstraZeneca (Chennai) in Sep 2025
Interview
I attended only the first round of the interview.But in my panel ,every students were asked only the same set of questions .The questions are only from the resume and the projects mentioned in the resume.Apart from the resume,the interviewers asked few technical questions and situational based questions .Overall it was a good experience to attend the first interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me to design the high level architecture of any social media app.And asked about the most comfortable programming language that I have worked with.
I applied online through a virtual career fair, and a nice HR contacted me to schedule a 1st round phone interview, it's all BQ. Then got into next round technical interview, including a tech lead and product manager, introducing what their app is about, and asked my React's experience, and SQLite questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you using SQLite in your android app project?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at AstraZeneca (Macclesfield, England) in Aug 2023
Interview
The interview had two stages:
- Technical interview (leetcode & past project based)
- Behavioural interview (what would you do in X situation, describe a time where you dealt with Y)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Relatively basic tech questions, but they were interested mainly in architecture of previous projects.