Alibaba Group Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

CanadaPosted May 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an online personality quiz, then moved into a phone interview where I introduced myself, walked through my past experience, and hit some technical questions.

Overall it felt fairly standard, and the interviewer was pleasant and even connected my background to something similar they’d seen before.

After that, the process turned into a longer sequence of rounds that leaned heavily toward Java and computer-science fundamentals. I kept getting asked about my resume and projects first, then deeper questions around Java OOD, design patterns, concurrency, and even JVM internals like memory handling and garbage collection. The interview questions also pulled in databases and systems topics—SQL (including indexing), comparisons between SQL and NoSQL, and

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