I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Loblaw Digital (Toronto, ON) in Jul 2022
Interview
The position was about Java developer. I got a call from recruiter initially.
1. Introductory round with recruiter
2. Technical round - 1 hour
3. Technical round - 1 hour with system design
4. Hiring manager - 2 rounds
Here comes weird parts:
The position was about java developer and previous rounds were revolving around that. They told me there would be one round with the hiring manager. Instead got 2 rounds.
In the first Hiring manager round, they needed PHP experience and it was pretty much a behavioural round.
The second round was the weirdest of all. The interviewer was 15 mins late, never apologized and started boasting about himself instead of team, company, culture or product. He told me he worked in Amazon and some startups, got different promotions and wasted another 15 mins here. In the last 30 mins, he asked leetcode medium (DP question) and design a chat system with an audio & video call facility.
Overall pretty bad experience. It seemed there were communication gaps and some unprofessional behaviour.
Haven't heard back from them about the decision.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The questions in technical rounds were leetcode easy level, pretty much around string and HashMap.
System design - stackoverflow
Very friendly and open questions. There were not any trick questions but instead focused on seeing what your experience was like and your maturity level in terms of solution design.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Loblaw Digital (Toronto, ON) in Dec 2023
Interview
I was called for pre screening interview with the recruiter, which was the first phase of interview and he asked me basic questions about my professional background about project challenges and other project related questions.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you faced problem while working in a project and what did you do to overcome it?
The recruiter reached out for a call, was extremely judgemental the entire time. She then never followed up despite me reaching out. Got ghosted similar to how they treat their customers
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