OOcado Group·Software Engineer

Ocado Group Software Engineer interview experience

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London, EnglandPosted Apr 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter conversation, then I was invited to do an online task where it felt a lot like a guided coding interview.

One of the prompts asked me to “distribute half candies with your brother while maximizing on unique candies.” I solved it, but I was pretty nervous and I made mistakes along the way, and the tech lead ended up helping in a way that felt a bit like pair programming.

Later, I learned that the process wasn’t just one round. I had another early interview after that, and I still didn’t make it through. That coding challenge was timed (about 45 minutes) and started with introductions before jumping straight into the exercise on Codility—again around counting distinct candies, like something you’d

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