Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Arcadia as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Quality Assurance Engineer and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Quality Assurance Engineer and roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Arcadia takes an average of 14 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Quality Assurance Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 14 days), whereas Quality Assurance Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 14 days).
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Arcadia in Jul 2020
Interview
One of the best interview in my life. 30 min with a manager about technical skills and then 10 min with HR about salary. Only clear questions about experience and some automation knowledge. They called me back the same day with the offer
I applied in-person. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Arcadia (Saint Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburg) in Jan 2022
Interview
The interview is pretty straightforward and it’s split by up to 3 parts:
1) SQL and database theory, pretty easy but it depends on interviewers, some of them may ask tricky questions. Apart from that: Indexes, tables, relations. You will be given a schema with two tables like Users and Logins and the interviewer can ask you to build some queries.
2) C# questions. This starts from Entity Framework questions and LINQ. Pretty simple, IEnumarable vs IQueryable, when the evaluation happens. Then goes basics of C# language itself. Common question set is: IDisposable, GC, reference vs value types with a question about strings, async/await, delegates. And some ASP.NET questions with HTTP methods/status codes
3) Frontend part. May include Angular, React or other framework based on a job requirement. VanillaJs and typescript questions like scopes, closures, object narrowing. RxJs question or two.
That’s practically it.