OOcado Group·Software Engineer

Ocado Group Software Engineer interview experience

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BarcelonaPosted Apr 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an HR phone interview where I talked about what interested me about Ocado and what I expected from the role.

Then I did a Codility test. The test itself wasn’t especially hard compared to what I’d seen at other companies, and after that I had two more phone interviews—one with a software engineer and one with a senior manager focused more on soft skills.

After passing those, I was invited on site. The day began with a logic test and then moved into pair programming. In the first part, I worked through a problem and coded it. After that, the session became dramatically harder: I was pushed into optimising the algorithm and ended up dealing with deep, specialised academic data structures that felt

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