I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at eDreams ODIGEO in Dec 2023
No offer
Negative experience
Easy interview
Application
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at eDreams ODIGEO (Barcelona) in Sept 2022
Interview
After pass the first interview the recruiter told me that I suit for Software Engineer 4, while I been promoted recently to architect team on my current company and previously I was going to that same position before leave my last company. She underrated me. Then I passed the interview and we agreed another interview with a technician, but I had urgent health issue that same day that required surgery, after 1 week of rest I had contact the recruiter my problem but she ignored me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some no sense questions concerning database index and other academic / exam questions. How I would some some technical challenges.
I had an initial interview with HR and then a 90-minute technical interview.
I didn't like the technical part, they send you a large naval battle project, made up of 3 modules, many classes, docker compose to run it locally and postman API.
But you will use very little of the project because they will only ask you to make a class immutable and fix a failing test.
The examiners place a lot of importance in the concept of immutable class (a concept that can be discovered in 3 minutes of online research and has hardly ever happened to anyone to implement in their working life as a developer) completely leaving out the questions relating to the examinee's work past ( libraries, frameworks, sql, methodologies for solving problems).
I also didn't like the correction part of the test, you have to understand a code you've never seen before in a few minutes, understand why it breaks and correct it. I don't consider the ability to do this in a short time and under exam stress to be a good yardstick given that in real working life we can spend hours solving these problems.