Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 1 semana. Acudí a una entrevista en Capco (Londres, Inglaterra) en sep 2022
Entrevista
1. Screening call with recruiter
2. 1h technical interview
After this I think a decision should be made. The technical interview was with a guy less experienced than me and. he asked lots of specific questions about Spring (what's the name of that and this annotation). All the respected companies evaluate you on your problem solving skills not framework specific questions, or tell me names of APIs enpoints. That's not where the skill of a SW. Eng. relies, we have Google after all!
Preguntas de entrevista [2]
Pregunta 1
Simple Java Questions and lots of specific things related to Spring (e.g. tell me the name of that annotation)
The hardest coding problem they asked (I could solve this kind of problems since 3rd year of uni, haha).
Print each elemen of the forest and the root of its correspondent tree.
printRootOfEachForestTree(int[] forest);
i=node
forest[i]= parent of node
¡= forestli] = root of the tree
Example output:
Root of the tree where O located is: 0
Root of the tree where 1 located is: 0
Root of the tree where 2 located is: 0
Root of the tree where 3 located is: 3
Root of the tree where 4 located is: 0
Root of the tree where 5 located is: 3
Root of the tree where 6 located is: 6
Root of the tree where 7 located is: 6
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Capco
Entrevista
The technical interview was really poorly conducted. The interviewer wasn't clear and seemed unprepared.
During the system design element, the interviewer wouldn't answer basic clarifying questions and kept interrupting me to basically repeat what I had said in slightly different words.
I was then asked some questions about Java and spring boot. I have a transcript of my interview and I validated my answers afterwards which were clear and well explained but in my feedback they said there were gaps in my technical knowledge.
One of the worst planned interviews I have had and I don't feel like it was designed to see the true capabilities of the candidates.
Probably one of the worst interviewers in London, just go in and interview with them if you want practice or want to feel how interviewing was back in 90s and have a laugh.
Tech interview consists of 3 parts but it goes fairly random from asking you what spring boot annotations are to pair coding some easy leetcode style question to systems design within 90 minutes.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Spring boot annotations questions and what they do
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. Acudí a una entrevista en Capco en ago 2025
Entrevista
The expectations during the interview also felt somewhat unrealistic, as the focus was mainly on bookish answers. In today’s development environment, it is not practical to expect developers to write code purely from memory or recall every method. A better approach would be to refine the evaluation process to assess practical skills more effectively. Training interviewers to align with this approach would also help in identifying the right talent.
