I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Mercari (Tokyo) in Jul 2019
Interview
A recruiter approached me about the opening and then I was invited to their online test and was asked to build an API for a module of an application. The thing is, the requirements are very vague, I had to ask and clarify the requirements several times and the answers were always given more than a day after the questions were asked. Mind you I only had one week to finish the test. I ended up being rejected but didn't find out about it until I followed up to the recruiter.
The least they could do is notify me directly and give feedback, not just give arbitrary reason like "not up to their bar".
After applying on their official website, you will get a week to complete a Project using Golang or PHP. The project is shared via Github and you can discuss about it with their engineers in issues.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a banner feature to show banner for Mercari app. Every banner has a start time and end time, while only one banner is chosen to show from all active ones.
