Roku Interview Questions

Roku Interview Questions

Practice 14 real interview questions from Roku. Covers Analytics & Experimentation, Coding & Algorithms, System Design, Behavioral & Leadership. For roles including Data Scientist, Backend Engineer, Software Engineer.

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Medium
Backend Engineer Locked

Design a high-throughput ad exchange

This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design scalable, high-throughput, low-latency distributed backend systems for real-time ad exchanges,...

System Design
4
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78 people solved
Feb 25, 2026
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Medium
Software Engineer Locked

Design a video-on-demand streaming service

This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design a large-scale video-on-demand streaming system, testing competencies in distributed systems ar...

System Design
7
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93 people solved
Jan 8, 2026
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Roku
Medium
Backend Engineer Locked

Explain concurrency and distributed fundamentals

This question evaluates understanding of concurrency and synchronization in multithreaded Java, Java hashing and equals/hashCode semantics, garbage co...

Software Engineering Fundamentals
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87 people solved
Feb 25, 2026
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Roku
Medium
Software Engineer Locked

Compute longest common subsequence length

This question evaluates understanding of dynamic programming and sequence processing, measuring competence in reasoning about optimal substructure, ov...

Coding & Algorithms
6
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74 people solved
Jan 8, 2026
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Roku
Medium
Data Scientist

Demonstrate cross-functional collaboration and influence

Behavioral Prompt — Cross-Functional Collaboration (STAR) Provide a specific example of cross-functional collaboration with a Product Manager (PM) and...

Behavioral & Leadership
7
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64 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Roku
Medium
Backend Engineer Locked

Implement ad filtering and concurrent cache

This question evaluates algorithmic problem-solving and systems-programming skills by combining an ad candidate filtering task that tests data-structu...

Coding & Algorithms
4
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39 people solved
Feb 25, 2026
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Easy
Data Scientist

Explain Bias-Variance Trade-off Simply for Stakeholders

Explain the Bias-Variance Trade-off Simply for Stakeholders You are in a data scientist interview and need to explain a core modeling concept to a non...

Statistics & Math
6
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50 people solved
Jul 12, 2025
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Roku
Medium
Data Scientist Locked

Explain and quantify bias-variance tradeoff

This question evaluates understanding of the bias–variance tradeoff, the expected test-error decomposition into irreducible noise, bias^2, and varianc...

Machine Learning
5
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70 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Roku
Medium
Data Scientist

Diagnose coffee-shop profit decline

You run a single-location coffee shop. In August 2025, profit dropped 18% vs July while transactions fell 4% and average check rose 2%. You have these...

Analytics & Experimentation
8
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55 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Roku
Medium
Data Scientist

Measure speaker impact without A/B testing

Your company launched an optional smart speaker on 2025-01-10. Adoption is voluntary; 6% of existing app users purchase within 60 days, and you cannot...

Analytics & Experimentation
8
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77 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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Roku
Medium
Data Scientist

Describe Aligning Goals with Cross-Functional Teams

Describe Aligning Goals with Cross-Functional Teams This behavioral prompt evaluates how you collaborate with product managers, engineers, designers, ...

Behavioral & Leadership
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88 people solved
Jul 12, 2025
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Roku
Medium
Data Scientist

Measure Speaker's Impact Using Propensity Score Matching

Measure a Speaker's Impact Using Propensity Score Matching A company releases an optional smart speaker. Some users purchase and link the speaker to t...

Analytics & Experimentation
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151 people solved
Jul 12, 2025
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Roku
Medium
Data Scientist

Analyze Profit Decline: Data Collection and Hypothesis Testing

Analyze Profit Decline: Data Collection and Hypothesis Testing You manage a coffee shop whose profits have recently declined. You need to diagnose the...

Analytics & Experimentation
15
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67 people solved
Jul 12, 2025
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Roku
Medium
Data Scientist

Write SQL for profit, growth, retention

Write ANSI-SQL (PostgreSQL preferred) for the tasks below. Assume all timestamps are UTC and that "today" = 2025-09-01. Schema: - products(product_id ...

Data Manipulation (SQL/Python)
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93 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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