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      Senior Platform Engineer Interview

      23 Nov 2018
      Anonymous employee
      London, England

      Other Senior Platform Engineer interview reviews for Deliveroo

      Senior Platform Engineer Interview

      29 Jan 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through other source. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Deliveroo (London, England) in Jan 2018

      Interview

      There was a coding exercise given in advance, that could be completed in the language of your choice. On the day, I had three interviews, each 1 hour long. Each interview had two interviewers. The first was an architectural interview, where we discussed a problem in a fairly free-form way, with a whiteboard. The second was a pair coding exercise, where I answered some questions on my code, and then implemented a new requirement in a pair coding/live coding way. The third was a "behaviour" one.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      To add a new feature to my cron parser to allow days of the week by name
      Answer question

      Question 2

      To discuss how I might go about extracting an identity service from a monolith in a safe way.
      Answer question
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Deliveroo (London, England) in Sept 2018

      Interview

      Contacted by in-house recruiter over LinkedIn. I had an initial HR call to discuss role, my background and salary expectation. I had a technical screen with one of the platform engineers, which was an online CoderPad exercise. I passed this, the next stage was a 3 hour final interview, 1 hour pair programming, 1 hour design, and 1 hour cultural. I couldn't spot the pattern for the pair programming exercise so needed help on that but knowing that came with an elegant solution. The design session the problem was more of a brain teaser than a practical problem such as design Deliveroo that I prepared for. It went very poorly as it was quite a narrow solution which comes down to database technology properties in the end. I didn't enjoy the interviewers in this session. The last session was a cultural one which was very standard, the interviewers in this one were quite casual unlike the others and was a real pleasure. I didn't expect to receive an offer because of the design session, and I didn't receive an offer because of my communication in the first 2. Communication and preparation at each step was very good.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Find the lowest common prefix.
      Answer question
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