Alibaba Group Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

Hangzhou, ZhejiangPosted Jun 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with phone or online-style meetings that moved in rounds.

The interviewers were generally friendly and the questions connected back to both fundamentals and how I thought through problems, so the overall feel wasn’t cold or adversarial.

In the first technical round, I got asked baseline foundation questions and some Java coding questions, then the next round pushed more open-ended discussion. There was enough structure to keep me on track, and the interviewers stayed interactive—if I had trouble, they could guide me rather than just let the conversation stall. I also noticed that the rounds were paced like short sessions (around half an hour each),

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