OOcado Group·Software Engineer

Ocado Group Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

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Negative

Hatfield, West Midlands, EnglandPosted Dec 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was recruited through a process that felt like a “pentathlon” from the start, with multiple stages and lots of puzzle-style evaluation.

A recruiter sent me to the site, and the environment itself was impressive—so much so that the systems and what they built felt mindblowing.

But the IT side of the process didn’t match that same excitement. The rounds felt like torture disguised as testing: they gave me a set of different spatial puzzle prompts and asked me to manipulate solutions in a very particular way, including pair programming where I was expected to complete half-coded work. I had the sense they weren’t really measuring software engineering capability in a realistic way, more like how quickly I could “kill my brain

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