Pathao
| Founding year | 2015 |
| Company Website | https://pathao.com |
| Career Website | https://career.pathao.com/#position |
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Introduction
Pathao, started as an app based user friendly courier service provider, now a super-app including ride sharing,rentals,food delivery,groceries and so on. They have also their own digital wallet named pathay pay and upcoming products like pathao maps.
Interview Stages:
These are the steps for the recent Associate Software Engineer (Front end) hiring
- Initial Interview: In-person
- Take Home Assessment: A task to perform and submit in github
- On-site Assessment: A task to perform and show on-site
- Final Interview: Final round with CTO and HR
Initial Interview:
In the initial interview they asked the applicants from their resume, their projects and experience mostly. They are speicifically looking for expertise in JavaScript and React so they asked some basic concepts like difference between context and state, difference between zustand and redux, what is reducer function, how useEffect hook is used and how does it work.
Take Home Assessment:
A week after the initial interview, pathao sends an email with proper instruction to build a trello like dashboard with boards,columns and drag-and-drop support. A task should be allowed to add,move edit and delete within the boards. There were bonus points for reordering in the same column, saving across reloads, using OAuth login, unit tests etc.
- This is the repository of the take home assessment.
On-site Assessment:
On completing the take home assessment successfully, they asked for an on-site assessment of 5-6 hours in the next week. This time they asked to create an e-commerce dashboard system with basic CRUD operations. They asked it to create with nuxt js as their existing system is made with vuejs.
- This is the repository of the final assessment.
Final Interview:
In this round they asked about how the on-site assessment was done. How difficult it was to use a different framework nuxt, as a react/nextjs developer. Asked some questions about graph data structures and algorithms. But most of the qustions of this round were behavioral and non-technical.