Five interviews if I recall correctly some of them quite challenging at times too. I felt it was a bit overkill and not justified for the position to be honest.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Glovo in Mar 2021
Interview
The recruiter approached me via Linkedin and send me some cool benefits from the company and about living in Spain. Then I was invited for an online interview with the recruiter. Before the interview, the recruiter sent me the company profile and some tech teams' profiles so I could know more about the company. I thought this interview was just an informal interview with the HR person to let me know about the company. But it turned out this was a technical screening.
The recruiter gave me some questions about my experience and some technical questions as well. By the end of the interview, the recruiter gave me a chance to ask some questions about the company. I asked about some benefits stated in the message sent on Linkedin before but I felt that the recruiter little bit hesitant to share that information and kept telling me, we will share more if you're invited to the next round. At that point, I knew I won't make it to the next round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some questions I remembered.
Tell me about yourself? experience, etc?
Why do you want to join Glovo?
What is microservice and monolith architecture? what are the pros and cons?
What is SOLID in OOP?
No Sql vs Sql databases? Some examples?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Glovo in Sept 2020
Interview
One of my worst experiences. 1,5h interview by a guy shooting questions like a college exam. OOP questions, garbage collector, JVM, Threads vs Processes, etc. The feedback I got back by email was not true, the interviewer said I had wrongly answered questions that I know I didn’t, so I’m pretty sure that the interviewer just didn’t want to let me pass the interview for whatever reason. As said, I’ve never faced something like that in 15 years career.
