AAnt Group·Software Engineer

Ant Group Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The first call was a technical phone screen where I had to solve a medium LeetCode-style string problem using techniques like sliding windows, and then I discussed time and space complexity.

That was followed by a deeper technical round where the problem shifted to graph traversal—BFS—and I answered additional questions spanning Redis, MySQL indexing, and what it means to handle high concurrency in distributed systems.

In the next round, I tackled a dynamic programming question and then moved into backend design topics. That discussion included how to think about message queue reliability, cache consistency strategies, and how to decouple services.

The last round was behavioral with the hiring manager. I talked through my past projects involving large-scale data processing,

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