I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Shopee (Singapura) in May 2019
Interview
Skype call. But I was asked questions those were answered in my cv. Apparently, the recruiter did not go through my resume. Did not ask many relevant questions such as my thesis or publication even though the post was for research. Put too much importance on experience rather than qualification or ability which is pretty much irrelevant for research background. The recruiter was very friendly although I do not think (s)he was very familiar with or aware of what the job requires. Spent too much time on a sample project I did rather than asking about better/professional projects I was involved in
I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Shopee (Singapura) in Apr 2019
Interview
The entire process took about 2 weeks.
The first round was a phone interview with HR. The following are 3 rounds of technical interviews with different people, probably future teammates and manager.
Unlike what I have read from the other interview reviews in Glassdoor, I find that the whole process was conducted very well from appointment bookings, actual interviews to follow-ups.
While some of my interviewers might not be super fluent in English, but it was at the comprehensible level if you are willing to slow down the pace of the conversation sometimes. Moreover, when I was unable to answer certain technical questions, they were still very patient and encouraging instead of making me feel bad.
Some of the Glassdoor interviews reviews here question the purpose of certain technical questions being asked, feeling that it was irrelevant. I myself suffer the same consequence of not able to answer some fundamental computer science questions due to lack of preparation. It didn't feel good. However I did ask the interviewers the intent behind such questions and they fully explained to me and I fully accepted their reasoning.
I was offer the role in the end but I didn't accept it because I have another different offer elsewhere which at the same time. I would have taken Shopee offer if not for my other offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Computer Science questions - sorting, searching, data structure, binary tree. Actual code writing and walkthrough. How to optimize. Big O notations. Efficiency is always a key component here.
2. Machine learning and deep learning questions. Everything from supervised to unsupervised learning. What are the linear classifiers? Explain how CNN works, random forest, recurrent neural network. Clustering. Nearest neighbors. I think we gone through all the topics in machine learning.
3. System design. How to search efficiently. Explain previous experience or projects implemented etc.
I applied in-person. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Shopee (Singapura) in Mar 2018
Interview
there are three rounds, machine learning , big data and so on. 1round, main coding 2 question. 2round machine learning and coding algorithm part. 3round coding 2 questions.