Alibaba Group Software Engineer interview experience

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Beijing, BeijingPosted Feb 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a fairly standard set of technical interviews that felt typical for a new-grad process.

After getting to the onsite stage, I ended up with four total technical interviews, each short—under an hour. The day was intense but manageable: two rounds were technical and one round was a talk with a recruiter.

On the technical side, I was asked about common data structures and string-related questions, with the usual suspects like binary search trees, linked lists, and how to reason through strings. The interviewer also wanted me to know my resume well, and when they were interested, they would dig into parts of my background and discuss points I’d already written down.

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