I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at IKEA (Amsterdam) in Sep 2022
Interview
The initial step was a short discussion with a tech recruiter.
In the 2nd step, I had an interview with tech lead and PO for an hour.
As the 3rd step, I received the code challenge which was quite time consuming given its acceptance criteria.
The 4th step was technical interview which was partly based on the submitted code and partly more abstract and about system design. This interview took 1h 45 minutes and it was very exhausting.
But after this final interview, for TWO weeks, I didn't here a word from the PO and the recruiter. I sent them an email and they said we'll get back to you shortly and another week went by without any feedback. Finally 17 days later, the recruiter notified me that they decided to go with another candidate.
I found the no-go flow very unprofessional. They ghosted me after such time consuming interviews instead of giving some honest feedback.
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at IKEA (Bengaluru)
Interview
First recruiter will reach out to you understanding experience and skills. Then the first round will be Hiring Managerial Round, understanding our core technical competencies and our mindset.
Then we'll get an assignment to complete, I find the assignment very hard, we need to complete in couple of days and push it github for them to review. Then there'll be discussion on that assignment, tradeoffs etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Ikea?
Tech stacks and infra tools we've worked on?
Conceptual questions on infra? Docker, Kubernetes, terraform CI/CD, etc.
Questions on multi-cloud environment?
Latency, concurrency, etc.
Lots of discussion around assignment and design practices.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at IKEA (Amsterdam)
Interview
1. Recruiter call 2. Engineer manager call 3. Take home tech assignment 4. Tech Assessment 5. Group product engineer manager call 6. Offer Overall good and reasonable interview process reflecting real world working on a daily basis
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Why you chose IKEA 2. What is your strength weakness 3. How you manage conflicts
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at IKEA (Madrid)
Interview
4 rounds of online interview with a tech challenge to do at home. All the interviewers were very kind in every step of the process and also the response times were very low (the next one or two days).
It was a good experience.
- HR call to know more about my inquietudes
- Engineering Manager interview
- Tech test
- Tech interview (questions about the previous exercise)
- Informal interview to know more about me