Algolia·Software Engineer

Algolia Software Engineer interview experience

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United KingdomPosted Mar 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews were fairly compact compared to some of the bigger pipelines I’d seen.

The first round was a recruiter-style screening call with basic questions about my background and a quick framing of experience. Then I met a lead or manager where the focus shifted into a more in-depth technical discussion about my experience and the technologies I’d worked with.

What stood out most was that the technical questioning felt tied closely to how I explained my understanding, not just whether I could name tools. In one of the interviews, the conversation stayed very much on what I understood about the company and the kind of market it operates in, including the type of clients

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