Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Agoda en mar 2020
Entrevista
3 rounds of online interview. Later onsite interview would be present.
Round 1: HackerRank Test (set of objective type questions consisting of Swift and Objective C, easy coding questions.)
Round 2: Interview conducted via Coderpad, interviewer covers your knowledge on problem solving, iOS(including unit testing). My interviewer told me to focus on Unit testing more for future interviews as I was unable to properly answer that bit.
Round 3: They gave me an app to fix the issues in it and implement proper design along with unit testing. (For this round you would never know what is the limit, so it would be difficult to crack as they expect you to have all unit test for all the scenarios and redesign the entire application).
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Agoda (Bangkok)
Entrevista
They asked two medium algorithm problems; one focused on recursion. I explained the approach and implemented a clean recursive solution using Swift, discussing complexity, base cases, and edge handling clearly.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Mostly they didn't ask anything in this first round assessment interview.
The first technical round was a live coding session with 2 Leetcode-style tasks. The interviewer was friendly and supportive, creating a comfortable environment. The second round was to refactor code. Overall, it was a positive experience.
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. Acudí a una entrevista en Agoda en may 2021
Entrevista
I spent a lot of time in this process. Majorly due to the time difference and long feedback loops.
I am in WestAfrica and the recruiter reached out to me trying to see if I was interested in working in their Bangkok office.
I said, why not?
- I had a chat with the recruiter for about 30 minutes
- They sent me 13 stack-related multiple choice questions + 2 rather long coding tasks on codesignal. I only attempted the 13 and was scored 11/15 and was moved to the next round. I made a decision not to attempt the other 2. I had about an hour to attempt this.
-The next stage was another 2 hr interview. 1 hr Algorithms with a Development Manager and only if successful (which I was), another 1hr building an iOS feature in codesignal, a text-based editor with proper architecture and clean code without auto-complete or syntax highlighting. I was interviewed by a Lead Software Engineer. I was successful in this and was moved to the last round.
- The last round was with a Senior Development Manager and we discussed high-level architecture, scaling, both from the iOS and backend point of view (As i have backend experience) for about an hour.
I was eventually informed that they would love to have me on their team. I negotiated my salary and was very ecstatic because although the opportunity was in a country I was not so enthused about, I felt it was better than the situation I was in.
You see I have not had luck getting interviews at international companies in the past so you could imagine the joy my family had for me when I informed them about this supposedly great news.
After about 3 weeks, Signing the offer, telling my family, daydreaming about life in Thailand, and almost submitting my resignation letter, I woke up to an email telling me that I can't work with them now because I can't get a Visa.
My Bachelors is in Chemistry and although I have 4 years of Professional Software Engineering experience, I need 5 years without a CS degree to migrate as an 'expat' to Thailand.
I tried to see if I could work remotely but they weren't interested in that.
I kind of feel I wasted my time interviewing at this company.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Classic Algorithm problems. About Leetcode Medium level.
Stack / Platform fundamentals.