I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Glovo (Barcelona) in Apr 2020
Interview
Typical process, but was quite unorganized and weird...
I was contacted by a recruiter that explained me the position, the technological stack, the business model of Glovo and asked about my CV, interests and so on..
Told him that i didn't have any background in Java and their stack was using it all around, but answered that they weren't really looking for a Java specialist if the candidate had background in software engineering on distributed architectures.
The position seemed interesting, so I accessed to the technical interview.
Second interview was with two engineers, covering several topics (concurrency, JVM working, Data Structures, Devops, Databases, CI/CD,...)
Lots of questions directly related to Java, which was quite uncomfortable... But in general, weren't difficult questions.
After that, the recruiter contacted me again, telling that I lacked Java knowledge for the Backend Position, but that I could fit in another backend position (that wasn't really able to explain and seemed more a Test Automation role for the few clear things that he said)... that also required Java knowledge.
I would have to repeat the second interview with another team members in order to apply to that second position, so I told him that I wasn't interested in continue with the process.
Interview questions [6]
Question 1
Computational complexity of algorithms on several data structures
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4 entrevistas:
- HR alrededor de 1 hora hablando sobre la empresa, cultura y lo esperado de uno. Al mismo tiempo de los valores que se manejan.
- 1 hora live code, ejercicios de programacion al estilo leetcode
- 1 hora live code, software architecture de una aplicacion.
- 1 hora con el manager del equipo al que entrarias para conocerse y ver si es un buen fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- HR alrededor de 1 hora hablando sobre la empresa, cultura y lo esperado de uno. Al mismo tiempo de los valores que se manejan.
- 1 hora live code, ejercicios de programacion al estilo leetcode
- 1 hora live code, software architecture de una aplicacion.
- 1 hora con el manager del equipo al que entrarias para conocerse y ver si es un buen fit.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Glovo (Barcelona) in Oct 2020
Interview
This was a lengthy process. It all started with a 45 min round with HR. The usual stuff, pretty relaxed. Then onto the technical interviews:
You are given specific details on what topics to brush up on in order to prepare for each step of the interview process.
There was a technical call of about 45 mins covering basics of software development.
Then a Codility challenge which was of medium difficulty.
Then the "final 4" of interviews split in 2 days: systems, architecture, live coding and culture fit.
Then onto a technical call with one of the engineers, which covered pretty much all topics listed in
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Distributed systems: trade-offs between
different architectures, CAP theorem,
eventual consistency, patterns of async
communication etc
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Glovo (Bengaluru) in Oct 2020
Interview
One of the lengthy interview processes I ever attended. First, there will be a Recruiter Screening interview, then a 90mins Technical Screening interview. If you pass them, then there will be 4 rounds of interviews. First, 90 mins Coding interview, 60 mins system design, 60 min object oriented design and then behavarioul interview with the manager. Overall it takes atleast 3 weeks for the whole process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1)Recruiter and Technical screening will be around mostly coding principles like SOLID, JVM, memory model etc.
2) Coding questions :- Find first non repeating character, find the frequency of given element in sorted array and find the maximum sum.
3) Object Oriented Design:- Design low level Scooter Rental.
4) System design :- Design food delivery system like swiggy.