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      Java Backend Developer Interview

      21 Jul 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Hatfield, East of England, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Ocado Technology (Hatfield, East of England, England) in Mar 2019

      Interview

      Don't bother applying here if you want feedback after your interview. The Ocado internal recruiters are very unprofessional and will completely ignore if you don't get the job - even if you got through to the final stage! No feedback, not even a formal rejection, nothing. Incredibly rude. If a candidate takes an entire day to attend your assessment centre, the very least you should do is let them know the outcome and give some feedback. Stages: - Technical phone interview: 1 hour - Assessment centre (technical and soft skill): 1 day The assessment day is pretty exhausting (not hard) because of the time length. To Ocado: I would really recommend shortening it. We could have achieved the same outcome in 4 hours if you strip out the unnecessary parts. Assessment centre consisted of: - 2 hour technical pair programming exercise. You'll be sent home if you don't complete this successfully. - Warehouse tour - Lunch provided by ocado. You'll be left in the canteen for an hour, which I appreciated during a long day! - Interview with IT Head. Behavioural checks, cultural fit, etc.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Complete a half-finished project that provides a search algorithm for coordinates in a grid. Pair programming.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Code review a provided implementation of a Stack
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      Write an algorithm to search for palindromes, explaining the time and space complexity
      Answer question
      2
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      Ocado Technology response
      6y
      Thanks for the review and we're really sorry you didn't enjoy the experience or get the feedback you wanted. We'll pass this on to our Recruitment team to take a look at.

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