Alibaba Group Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Oct 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started with a recruiter-style call, where I shared my background and the overall story of my journey.

Soon after, I joined an interview on the scheduled date and it mostly felt like an open conversation rather than a pure coding checkpoint.

The interviewer asked multiple questions, and instead of treating it like a nonstop skills test, they spent a lot of time drilling into my past project experience. When I got stuck on a coding problem, I could still ask for hints, and the tone stayed friendly and supportive. A good chunk of the questions had a behavioral angle too—framing things around my best work and moments where I struggled, using a structured way of telling stories.

Even though the

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