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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      1 Apr 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Singapore
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Shopee (Singapore) in Mar 2020

      Interview

      Referred by a friend working in the company, A recruiter will schedule a phone call with you to know your background and your expectations. Next, there will be 3 technical rounds, 2 with senior engineers, 1 with a tech lead. The funny this in all of this interview is they don't want you to introduce yourself normally, they just want you said what is your tech stack in 1 sentence then they will start asking their questions. I guess this is because of their English is not so good so it hard for them to discuss your background in a verbose manner. The first 2 technical rounds were very challenging to me. Here is a breakdown of these interviews: - Background work: the interviewer will look at your CV and pick out a technology that you said you used and ask about it. This is normal, the this that I didn't expect is the depth of these questions. E.g internal mechanism of Elastic Search, exactly one implementation of Kafka, etc. - Coding: there will be 1 coding question where they share you a code share to type. The question itself is medium and the interviewers did guide you through the process. - Fundamental questions: Interviewers will ask you a list of questions on various topics. The topics they covered are very wide, you need to revise all of this topic beforehand in order to have a chance of passing these interviews. The topics range from Networking, Database, OS. The last technical round is with a Tech Lead, for some reason this round is significantly easier compared to the last 2 rounds. But a few of my friends said for them this is the most difficult round, so I guess it varies from team to team. I received an offer a few days later via a phone call. There is no culture or product interview. Overall experience: - Recruiter is friendly and sincere, I can feel she really trying to facilitate to match my offers. - Interviewers are also friendly, their English is not so good, but they did try to communicate so I can feel that they will be easy to work with. They also demonstrate a strong and deep technical capability base on the discussion we had during the interview. Unluckily, I didn't accept the offer at the end.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Fundamental Computer Science
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Knowledge about common tech like Mysql, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch
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      Accepted offer
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      18 July 2025
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      Application

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