Interview - Lead Full Stack Agoda

What should one prepare for an Agoda SPM interview? Any pointers?

Hi guys, I have cleared the first round of the company where I was asked different set of ques ranging from algo problem, react, js and microfrontend topcis along with day to day life queries and architect role on a remote call. My 2nd round is this week. What should I expect to be asked in this round which is on site? Thanks in advance

Anyone recently interviewed for data engineering at Agoda pls share dsa tips.

Which company did you have the worst interview experience with?

Sharing my interview experience for grapvine audience. I applied to this company called Weave for Software Engineer role. 1. Recruiter call was very good 2. Coding round 45mins - a. Interviewer wasted 30mins Asking irrelevant questions for the coding round. b. Asked why my current company uses AWS instead of other cheaper cloud providers like GCP, Azure etc, as if I am CTO at my employer. c. Asked Hr questions like why I am looking for switch and what is my tenure at current company, it was totally irrelevant to coding round. d. Asked manipulative question to frame me, "What is the strength of my current engineering team?", I answered 5 engineers, SDE2, staffs etc. He then put his narcissistic comment "If I don't consider EM and PMs as a strength of the team" as in strength-weakness manner. e. Wasted 30mins in these BS questions and then gave a coding question which I solved with working code and he was satisfied with it. f. I was already shocked by his un-professional behaviour, to add to it he extended another 15mins to interview by asking follow up tech questions. g. I knew it's something wrong with this interviewer, then he started asking from which place in the country I am from. I was not in a mood take anymore of his BS, so I gave vague answer mentioning my State in India, he yet started pressuring me to tell exact city. Don't know how this interviewer was a senior engineer at that company with such foolish behaviour. Even after coding a working solution and acknowledgement by interviewer. I got rejection email saying "rejected due to my coding round". I ain't taking such BS and un-professional behaviour, so I reported entire interview details to recruiter and Head HR of that company, it's totally unacceptable for interviewers to waste time of candidates with their incapability, bias and un-professional behaviour. I got response that they will look into this matter internally and such behaviour is totally not acceptable

The interview was face to face. I was told explicitly that it'd be a hands on coding round. DSA and screening round was already completed. The guy who came to the interview basically had the same level of experience as mine. First, he asked me about if I've worked on microservices architecture. I said I have and mentioned details about a few projects. Then, he told me: Since you've worked on AWS heavily, do you know the default timeout of a lambda? Told him, I don't remember exactly and gave him a wild guess. It was too wild it seems. My bad, should've just not spoken. I accept my mistake. Then he asked, what are the different services that can invoke a lambda. I mentioned sqs, sns, cloudwatch, dynamo db streams, etc. He's like, what specifically from a microservices perspective. I repeated SQS, SNS mainly. He's like, Lambda can be also invoked by other Lambdas which is what I was expecting you to answer. Great. Shouldn't have asked an open ended question if he was looking for exact answers, right ? Then a few other questions that I was able to generally respond, but maybe not with the level of exactitude that he was expecting. Then, he asked me to code up a few endpoints related to followers, following, posts and wall. I told him that in the interest of time, I'm trying to get the endpoints working instead of focussing on design and he said sure go ahead. I was genuinely under the impression that he wants to see if I know how to code, but he was testing my system design skills. He was obviously not happy seeing me cut corners. At the end during discussion he said you could've done correctly in a certain way. I said yes - It's obvious that it was the right way, but I only compromised on the design thinking you wanted to see my ability to actually understand the framework related stuff. Interviews can be a bitch !

Recently, I gave an interview at this early startup in Bangalore. It consisted of 5 rounds. - The first four rounds were technical, design, and assignment rounds which went well. I answered all the questions fairly well and the interviewer was happy knowing the answer. - The fifth round was with the CEO - Now this was the turning point. He was more concerned about my personal situation. He asked questions like, where I live, where is my hometown, if WFO is okay for me (I was working remotely in my current company ), and where is your dad ( I said he was no more and that turned off the CEO of a company), how will you keep my mother in BLR, why your mom not living with your siblings?. And I was like "WTF man".the only technical question he asked -> "Have you ever hacked a system in your recent days?". 😂😂 After wasting more than 14 hours in the process I received a rejection mail without any feedback. Message to recruiter - if you are more concerned about the personal situation of the candidate, please conduct a preliminary round for that.

I was interviewed at Accenture last month and was informed, my skill round is through. They scheduled a managerial round for me but later cancelled. Then onwards I keep getting a call from them that they want to schedule my MR and I agree for whatever date they ask me to come. But they never send interview invite. I even called back the HRs and they keep saying we will check and reschedule. No response from their candidate query mail also.