Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Ocado Group with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 63% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 2 days to get hired, when considering 25 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Ocado Group overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Ocado Group as a Software Engineer according to 25 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 34%
One on one interview: 20%
Group panel interview: 11%
Phone interview: 11%
Personality test: 9%
Background check: 6%
Drug test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Presentation: 3%
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Ocado Group (Barcelona) in May 2018
Interview
I have been directly contacted by Ocado Barcelona recruiter and did a phone interview. After that I have been asked to do a hangout technical interview with a team lead and a senior software engineer for about an hour. Got a call from the company recruiter to congratulate me that I have been successful and selected to attend a half day long, on premise 4 stages process. An Ocado aptitude test, a behavioural interview, a 2 hours pair programming session and a final interview. All done to the final interview, when the recruiter came and said that they are stopping the process because I didn't pass the aptitude test!
I challenged here that it can't be realistic, so someone came with the aptitude test papers, where it was obvious that it was done intentionally, as there were no logical mistakes but something like: you should have declared a variable instead of using the expression inside the bracket! By the way there was no mentioning about this in the requirements!
When I challenged them on this they said "they ran it through a parser" that's why, although the logic is correct but the parser failed it!!!
My answer to them was "You are good with robots ... you should continue on that and hire robots ... I am glad I am not going to work for you :)"
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The aptitude test was a 13 questions with an assembler like language, to do operations such as Add, Increment, Decrement, GT, Divide ... and so on, which builds on each other.
The questions are not that difficult, but you should be aware somehow for their "Parser" if you ever want to work for them ;)
its simple and good had 3 stages online call and in plant interview with hiring managers its simple and good had 3 stages online call and in plant interview with hiring managers
Smooth process. Multiple rounds including coding, pair programming and behavioral and nice interview. The questions were good if you practice, pair programming is extensive. The last round is with behaviour