Boku Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

I had a quick chat about my resume and availability, then an interview with the team lead where they asked basic questions about my past projects and career aspirations. I got another offer with a tight deadline, so I told their recruiter. They tried to get me to reject it for a chance to interview with Boku, which I did. I got a packet of info and scheduled 4.5 hours of interviews. On the morning of the interview, they closed the position. My advice: don't consider yourself employed at Boku until you start, and try to get extensions from other companies until at least a day or two after you start.

The company was a startup with under 100 employees and didn't feel dynamic enough. The interview started with a face-to-face interview where I was given a problem: finding a path in a graph from A to B, allowing cycles, with the path length less than 4 nodes. I first coded it using recursion on a whiteboard, which was correct. Then, I was asked to do it using a stack, and I explained that. After that, they assigned me a coding assignment, which involved calculating tax. I submitted the assignment with a structured code service-layered architecture, and it produced the correct result. Unfortunately, the HR became unresponsive, and the consultant mentioned the feedback wasn't great, and then they also went silent.

There was a programming test, then an on-site interview. They seemed to value good personal interaction, and the technical knowledge required was similar to what you'd find at most software companies.