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      Backend Developer Interview

      Apr 22, 2020
      Anonymous employee
      Barcelona
      Accepted offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Glovo (Barcelona) in Apr 2020

      Interview

      Typical process, but was quite unorganized and weird... I was contacted by a recruiter that explained me the position, the technological stack, the business model of Glovo and asked about my CV, interests and so on.. Told him that i didn't have any background in Java and their stack was using it all around, but answered that they weren't really looking for a Java specialist if the candidate had background in software engineering on distributed architectures. The position seemed interesting, so I accessed to the technical interview. Second interview was with two engineers, covering several topics (concurrency, JVM working, Data Structures, Devops, Databases, CI/CD,...) Lots of questions directly related to Java, which was quite uncomfortable... But in general, weren't difficult questions. After that, the recruiter contacted me again, telling that I lacked Java knowledge for the Backend Position, but that I could fit in another backend position (that wasn't really able to explain and seemed more a Test Automation role for the few clear things that he said)... that also required Java knowledge. I would have to repeat the second interview with another team members in order to apply to that second position, so I told him that I wasn't interested in continue with the process.

      Interview questions [6]

      Question 1

      Computational complexity of algorithms on several data structures
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      Question 2

      Describe the memory allocation on JVM
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      Question 3

      Describe how the JVM works
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      Question 4

      SQL vs noSQL (where to use each one, differences and trade offs, how to run a migration without downtime)
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      Question 5

      Concurrency questions
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      Question 6

      Distributed systems questions
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      Glovo response
      5y
      Hey, thank you for sharing your experience! We’re still a young company experiencing fast growth and are working hard to keep up with our expanding workforce and market so we know we still have lots to improve in terms of processes and infrastructure. We wish you all the best in your career!

      Other Backend Developer Interview Reviews for Glovo

      Software Developer (Backend) Interview

      Mar 26, 2025
      Anonymous employee
      Barcelona
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Glovo (Barcelona)

      Interview

      4 entrevistas: - HR alrededor de 1 hora hablando sobre la empresa, cultura y lo esperado de uno. Al mismo tiempo de los valores que se manejan. - 1 hora live code, ejercicios de programacion al estilo leetcode - 1 hora live code, software architecture de una aplicacion. - 1 hora con el manager del equipo al que entrarias para conocerse y ver si es un buen fit.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      - HR alrededor de 1 hora hablando sobre la empresa, cultura y lo esperado de uno. Al mismo tiempo de los valores que se manejan. - 1 hora live code, ejercicios de programacion al estilo leetcode - 1 hora live code, software architecture de una aplicacion. - 1 hora con el manager del equipo al que entrarias para conocerse y ver si es un buen fit.
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      Backend Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 1, 2021
      Anonymous employee
      Barcelona
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Glovo (Barcelona) in Oct 2020

      Interview

      This was a lengthy process. It all started with a 45 min round with HR. The usual stuff, pretty relaxed. Then onto the technical interviews: You are given specific details on what topics to brush up on in order to prepare for each step of the interview process. There was a technical call of about 45 mins covering basics of software development. Then a Codility challenge which was of medium difficulty. Then the "final 4" of interviews split in 2 days: systems, architecture, live coding and culture fit. Then onto a technical call with one of the engineers, which covered pretty much all topics listed in

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Distributed systems: trade-offs between different architectures, CAP theorem, eventual consistency, patterns of async communication etc
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      4
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      Glovo response
      5y
      We are glad to hear about your experience!

      Backend Developer Interview

      Jul 7, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Glovo (Bengaluru) in Oct 2020

      Interview

      One of the lengthy interview processes I ever attended. First, there will be a Recruiter Screening interview, then a 90mins Technical Screening interview. If you pass them, then there will be 4 rounds of interviews. First, 90 mins Coding interview, 60 mins system design, 60 min object oriented design and then behavarioul interview with the manager. Overall it takes atleast 3 weeks for the whole process.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1)Recruiter and Technical screening will be around mostly coding principles like SOLID, JVM, memory model etc. 2) Coding questions :- Find first non repeating character, find the frequency of given element in sorted array and find the maximum sum. 3) Object Oriented Design:- Design low level Scooter Rental. 4) System design :- Design food delivery system like swiggy.
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      Glovo response
      4y
      Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us!

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