I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Tesco (Welwyn Garden City, England) in Oct 2016
Interview
1 Step: Online test. Two simple programs to write in about 120 min
2 Step: Very long interview in Tesco HQ which was about 3h
- 1h - coding in pair programming (Two programs to write with TDD and good Quality in high pressure)
- 1h - general software design
- 1h - discussion with manager (all questions come from defined interview book)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding:
1. Write program which will be calculated score in Poker Game.
2. Modification on the string object (Logic case)
Design:
1. Design infrastructure/software which allows redeem two kinds of coupons (coupon with amount, coupon which can be used more than one time) and avoid use this same coupon in this same time from different location.
2. How would you like to do deploy without having server down ?
3. How synchronize databases ?
Discussion with Manager
1. General questions about your experience and what would you like to do in some cases ?
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Tesco (Bengaluru) in Apr 2026
Interview
I was given a java code in which I had a list of products (product names may contain more than 1 word), when user searches for keyword (say Chocolate Milk) then all the products having either of those two words need to be returned regardless of the order of the words in keyword.
I also has to write unit test for my code
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tesco in Mar 2025
Interview
introduction with in house recruiter, then technical discussion with software engineer about my technical background, followed by code pairing and system design with engineers and finally a behavioral interview with product.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what happens when you insert the website name in your browser
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Tesco (London, England) in Jan 2025
Interview
screening phone call plus one day onsite with 3 interviews
Pairing
System architecture
Culture fit with potential manager, I would be reporting to a manager based abroad (India) for this particular position
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Please design Twitter on the whiteboard, how would you architecture it and host it