I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Agoda (Bangkok)
Interview
Had two skype video calls before they invited me in person for an onsite interview in Bangkok. All the interviews were with dev managers. Mostly with new staff (less than 2 months at Agoda)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you solve speed up a website with multiple data centers?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Agoda in Feb 2017
Interview
The initial process was super fast - I was contacted by an internal recruiter, who connected me to another recruiter to assess the role that would best suit me, and finally, we agreed on a time for the initial technical interview with one of their development managers. From the way the recruiters organised everything, it seemed like they have a great process for internal communication.
Tech interview with one of their development manager: The interviewer arrived minutes later than the calendar time, but that's fine since he said he had to move between rooms. Here's where things started getting weird. He was least interested in getting to understand the other person or his previous career path/accomplishments, and there was zero intro on Agoda. He bragged a bit about his previous experiences, sent out a code pairing link and headed straight to solving "Array Problems" and time complexity of different sorting algorithms. His focus was consistently on improving the time complexity and showing off how efficiently he can code. This didn't sound positive to me given that they are interviewing someone with several years of experience and not a fresher, and the questions were not practical or real-world problems they are trying to solve or design patters.
I wasn't then really interested to continue further since he was pretty rude in a couple of scenarios during the interview and I wouldn't want to work with such a person.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typical array problems - sort an array, merge two arrays, improving time complexity
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Agoda (Bangkok) in Jan 2017
Interview
The interview process started in January. There were 2 interview sessions in 1 day, with front-end development manager and back-end development manager, one hour each.
Mostly technical questions i.e. web architecture, load balance etc., several whiteboard questions including drawing class diagram, coding and optimizing algorithm and previous development experiences.
I got take home test one week later. Had to wait for 5 weeks after submitted the test. Then, I had another interview with other development manager. Similar to the previous one, asked about development experiences, web architecture and simple coding. This time they contacted me back one day later after the interview.
Overall, three interviewers treat me respectfully but the process was quite bad. I had to call the recruitment coordinator several times to ask for the feedback. They said they would give me an answer within a week, Still no answer. I keep calling once a week and got the same answer.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What is the difference between == and === in javascript