I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Kakao (Seongnam) in May 2019
Interview
First part was a personality interview, asking about the application, experience, projects and so on. Second part was the technical interview, reviewing the remote programming test taken at home and asking about optimization.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was the most interesting project you worked on?
coding test - interview1 - interview2 is a basic form of the process. Coding test in kakao is not easy. So if you gone through them the interviews would be relatively less competitive.
There are two high level coding accesments to get an interview you should pass so if you are not good at data structure or algorithms then you probably fail to pass it.
1st of all you need to Apply through online and need to submit fill up your all information Then Coding test of you can pass conding test though online portal then there will be a short face to face interview and go on.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Kakao with 3.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 83% positive. To compare, the company-average is 70.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Kakao overall takes an average of 20 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Kakao as a Software Engineer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 25%
Group panel interview: 25%
Presentation: 25%
IQ intelligence test: 13%
One on one interview: 13%
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