Deliveroo·Backend Engineer

Deliveroo Backend Engineer interview experience

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Negative

CroatiaPosted Dec 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for a senior Go backend role on a short-term contract.

The process started with a home task that I’d present, and then I had a live coding session to add new features for about 45 minutes. The assignment was centered on building an input parser, validating inputs, and producing results from variable elements. I finished it with edge cases covered and unit tests included.

During the live call, I ran into a tricky requirement: accepting a number expressed as a word instead of a literal numeric value. I implemented that with some extra time left. A few days later I received a negative response, and it honestly felt like mismatched expectations more

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