Hola Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
Based on 11 interview experiences · FREE TO READ
Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Hola.
Hola
Software Engineer
Mid Difficult Negative experience No offer 1 round
Interview process
Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Technical
The interviewer was really stuck in his own way of coding and had a bad attitude. The interview was supposed to be about javascript, but he didn't even know how javascript works in a browser. He actually said that indexing a string with an index larger than its length returns 0, which is wrong – it should return 'undefined'. You can easily check this in browser dev tools. He was also rude, kept typing and doing other stuff, and I had to prompt him multiple times for clarification or to let him know I was finished.
Confirmed questions4 questions
- Could you write a function to compare two strings?
- How would you optimize the string comparison function you just wrote?
- There is a bug in this code, can you find and fix it?
Hola
Software Engineer
Entry Average Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Take home Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Coding Coding
The interview process has 3 steps: first, a chat with a recruiter about general stuff and an offline coding test on gDocs, then a live coding test with an Engineer, and finally another live coding test with a different Engineer. There aren't really any technical questions, but the coding tests themselves are pretty cool and tough. They want you to focus on making code better, using classes, and working with async functions. You should check out their DNA page to see why they do the interview this way.
Confirmed questions5 questions
- Can you create a method to verify if a string containing parentheses like '([<' is perfectly nested?
- How would you optimize a given function?
- Please implement a deferred class with 'resolve' and 'then' methods.
Hola
Software Engineer
Senior Difficult Positive experience Accept offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Coding
Overall, it was a 4 stage process that took quite a bit of time from first phone interview to the last interview on site of the company. At first it was a 15-minute phone call with an HR about my professional skills and work experience. Within a week I had an interview with an engineer. Next I had a more detailed skype interview with the CTO and then I was offered to visit the company for a 3-week visit.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- In a Google-style interview lasting an hour on Skype, develop and then improve some performance/algorithm solution.
- Given a generic API, first describe what that API is supposed to do, and then implement that API.
Hola Software Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Hola interview reports.
“Write a function that compares two strings lexicographically in a case-insensitive manner.”
Read reports →“Can you write code to determine if a string represents valid parentheses?”
Read reports →“Create a basic Promise API”
Read reports →“Can you create a method to verify if a string containing parentheses like '([<' is perfectly nested?”
Read reports →“Could you implement a case-insensitive string comparison function?”
Read report →“Can you implement the int strcasecmp(char* a, char* b) function?”
Read report →“Can you implement a checker for parenthesis correctness?”
Read report →“How can you transform a synchronous function into an asynchronous one?”
Read report →“Could you write a function to compare two strings?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 11 Hola interview reports.