Alibaba Group Software Engineer interview experience

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Hangzhou, ZhejiangPosted Sep 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process began quickly after I applied through an employee referral.

The whole thing took only a few days, and I remember the pace feeling deliberate: first a brief phone screen, then a run of onsite interviews. The phone screen was basically there to make sure I wasn’t wasting anyone’s time, and it used an online collaboration tool so I could share code interactively.

Onsite, the interviews felt more in depth but still averaged out as manageable difficulty. I was asked to go through parts of my background—things like Java or query-related questions—then also problem-solving approaches for practical, real issues, with a lot of emphasis on scale. Even when the

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