I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Ocado Group (London, England) in Oct 2015
Interview
First they ask you to solve a test on a custom programming language which looks like a highly stripped down version of some very basic assembly language.
If you are successful with this they do an interview with the line manager(s). You will be asked to solve a programming problem and do a whiteboard task.
In the third round you meet the big boss I think he is the CTO or one of the first employees. I lost his designation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a program to tell if a string is palindrome.
Review code for a Java class.
I applied online. I interviewed at Ocado Group (Barcelona) in Nov 2022
Interview
Traditional interview with 4 rounds of interviews, Very simple level Technical people were fine and respectful and its okay if you cannot answer 1-2 things DONT go for them, they are paying same salaries that they were paying in 2018. They start with big promises like 75k and in the end will blaim your interview level that they can only offer 50-55k. Total BS HRs
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some customized hashcode equals codebase System design : tinyUrl Some 2 standard codility
I applied online. I interviewed at Ocado Group (London, England) in Oct 2022
Interview
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. All 4 stages interviews including technical and HR were online except the first initial 15 minutes phone interview (for me, they sent me an email including the questions and asked me to response before a dedicated hours cause they could not connect me through the phone) in October 2022
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First Round: - How much is the most distinct number of candies you have after giving the half to your brother?
Second Round: - A pair programming exercise with a tech lead and a developer and a product manager-to see the interview process-. They sent me a semi done project about a shopping basket promotion and asked me to share my screen and check the problems which prevent the program to work correctly.
Third Round: - It was held with two of technical leads. The first shared a simple application code on codility with me and asked me to check the quality of the code, the problems of the code and asked me some questions about what changes is required to be done to add new features or requirements, The second was about the process of requirement analysis and designing of a tiny url creator and mapper application.
Forth Round: - HR interview including soft skills, your previous experiences, some samples of your problems in work and your attitude to resolve the problems,...
After all this, they gave me a feedback after 5 days. I enjoyed the interview process throughout. Learned a lot throughout and would use this learning somewhere else now :)
Cheers
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Ocado Group (London, England) in Dec 2020
Interview
HR call explaining all the process and presenting the company. Easy first pair programming, where the interviewer talks about the technology used as well. And then another tough one. Very gentle people throughout all process. I would try again when possible. It looks like a very good place to work
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Distributed Candies and another geo location algorithms