I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Tala (Ciudad de Mexico) in Jan 2024
Interview
The interview process consisted of the following interviews, each lasting approximately 1 hour, conducted over a span of 2 months:
- Screening with the recruiter.
- English proficiency assessment with the recruiter.
- Interview with the hiring manager.
- Coding interview.
- Design interview.
- PM/PO (Project Manager/Product Owner) interview.
- HR cultural filter interview.
- Second interview with the hiring manager.
- Economic offer.
Between the 8th and the 9th interview (before knowing the offer you will receive), a background check is initiated with a company that requests sensitive data such as the INFONAVIT retention sheet, bank statements, and "reporte de buro de credito" (among other documents), without providing a confidentiality agreement (to be noted).
Once the background check is completed, an economic offer is extended during the 9th interview.
These are the benefits provided in Mexico:
- Major insurance
- Minor insurance
- Life insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Saving funds up to 13%
- Career and development plan
- Budget for training
- LinkedIn courses
- Referral bonuses
- Seniority bonuses
- Illness leave
- Paternity leave
- 15 days of vacation from the first day of joining
- PTU (Profit Sharing)
- Sloth day (every 2 months, on the third month, there is a designated day when the entire company rests)
- Christmas bonus of 15 days
- Vacation bonus of 25%
- Stock options
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Coding Exercise:
Given two strings (Secret and Guess String) of the same length that may contain repeated characters, determine the number of characters in the correct position and the number of characters in the wrong position.
Example:
Secret String: A B C
Guess String: C B A
1 in the correct position (B)
2 in the wrong position (A and C)
Before Design Exercise:
Before the actual interview, they may ask questions like:
- What is the difference between a process and a thread?
- What design patterns does Spring use?
- What is IoC (Inversion of Control)?
- What is AoP (Aspect-Oriented Programming)?
- What is dependency injection?
Design Exercise:
Design an application that retrieves an image from one service and, with another service, extracts text from that image. Store in a database the reference URL of the image and the extracted text using the provided data.