I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Agoda (Singapur) in Aug 2020
Interview
I had a referral from a friend. The interview process was smooth. The first round was a technical Coderpad round. It was followed by a tech home assignment/project. I did not advance to further rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Git:
- add vs commit
- pull vs fetch
2. SQL query to retrieve some data.
3. Find first non-repeating character in the string.
4. How hash is implemented ?
5. Shuffle an array.
6. Process vs thread
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Agoda (Singapur) in Sep 2020
Interview
Applied online at mid 2020, got contacted at around September.
I got into a phone call with one of the principle engineers, very friendly. We talked a little bit about my projects and what Agoda is doing.
First round was a take home test with Java, which they gave me a week time to complete . Nailed that one pretty well. The test content was to write a data compression program. I can't specify the details as it is unfair for other interviewees.
Second round was done by the hirinng team manager and a senior engineer. Round of coding and some more questions about my experiences. The coding question was a brain teaser.
Right after the second round I was approached my the head of department. Telling me about what they are doing in agoda right now.
Two days later I got the offer that I asked for. However due to personal reasons I had to decline but in general the interview process was a good go.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a program to calculate the sum of a list of integers, the partial integer sum could overflow, but the sum is guaranteed to be able to fit into a 32bit int type.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Agoda in Nov 2020
Interview
interviewer didn't show up for the zoom interview, then hr emailed asking to reschedule.
On the new date the new interviewer seemed confused, didn't know who I was or have proper questions for me..seemed I'll prepared.
Managed to move to next round, supposed to be 4 zoom interviews in 1 day.
After the first 2 interviewes, hr emailed saying they'll have to reschedule the other 2.
Couple of weeks passed, didn't hear back.
Emailed hr enquiring about my application, didn't hear back.
All in all very unprofessional and very ill prepared.