What the interviews are like, company by company

Companies

• What the Globant interview is like

  Globant hires for client projects, mostly for companies in the US and Europe. So its process has a step a product company does not: after you convince Globant, you often have to convince the client too. Your English matters from the first call.

• What the Mercado Libre interview is like

  Mercado Libre has one of the longest processes in the region. It starts with automatic tests, has a strong technical interview and more culture conversations than a US company. It also wants you to understand e-commerce in Latin America, not only the technology.

• What the BairesDev interview is like

  BairesDev filters with automatic tests first and talks later. English is not a bonus: for roles with US clients it is the first thing they decide on. If you pass, the technical interview is more spoken questions than algorithms.

• What the Rappi interview is like

  Rappi runs orders and payments in real time across several countries, and its interview shows it: an early coding test, a live session with senior engineers and, for mid and senior roles, system design. The pace can be fast or very slow depending on the team.

• What the Nubank interview is like

  Nubank describes its own process on its engineering blog, and it is one of the toughest in the region: it is compared to the big US tech companies. There is a take-home exercise, a pair programming session and questions about the finance business.

• What the Endava interview is like

  Endava is a consultancy with clients in Europe and the US. Its process usually has few stages, checks your English from the first call and has a technical interview focused on the basics and your projects. What varies most is how long they take to reply.

• The English interview for a remote job at a US company

  When a US company interviews you from Latin America, the technical part looks like any other candidate's. Everything else changes: English matters in every stage, you get questions a local candidate never gets, and some habits that are polite in the region read as lack of interest in the US.

• What the iFood interview is like

  iFood, the Brazilian delivery app, has more than 3,000 people in technology, according to the company. It does not publish a single process for developers, but it does publish its programs and what each job post asks for. What candidates report is fairly consistent: a coding challenge, a design interview where you have to justify every decision, and a culture conversation. And its tech job posts are in Portuguese, with no English requirement.

• What the Itaú tech interview is like

  Itaú Unibanco is Brazil's largest private bank and, according to its annual report as cited by the press, has more than 17,000 people in technology. It does not publish the stages of its process for tech roles, but candidates describe a fairly short path: HR, a technical interview with the manager and someone from the team, and a final conversation with leadership. Culture weighs a lot, and the technical part is more about cases from your stack than about algorithms.

• What the PicPay interview is like

  PicPay is one of Brazil's largest digital banks, and more than half of its people work in technology and product. It does not publish its interview stages, but candidates describe a fairly stable sequence: an HR conversation, a demanding technical interview on Java and system design, and a culture conversation where PicPay checks its seven values.

• What the Stone interview is like

  Stone, the Brazilian payments and financial services company, used to describe its process in its job posts: a conversation with People, a technical assessment and a talk with one of its "culture guardians". Candidates also report system design in almost every engineering process. And culture matters: its values appear in every post.

• What the VTEX interview is like

  VTEX is the Brazilian commerce platform listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and it works remote-first. Its technical process focuses on how you think rather than memorised algorithms, but one detail changes everything: some posts let you use AI in the exercise and others ban it. And engineering posts ask for both English and Portuguese.

• What the QuintoAndar interview is like

  QuintoAndar, the Brazilian real estate platform, is one of the few companies in the region that publishes its hiring process in detail: stages, approximate length, technical interview guides and even which uses of AI are allowed. For engineering, the core of the process is two live things: code and architecture cases.

• What the Doctolib interview is like

  Doctolib, the medical booking platform and software for health professionals, lists its interview stages at the end of every engineering job post. The technical part looks more like real work than an algorithm exam: you build a feature inside code that already exists. And the posts ask for fluent English, not French.

• What the BlaBlaCar interview is like

  BlaBlaCar, the French carpooling and bus travel app, lists every stage of its process in its engineering job posts, with the length in minutes. There are five calls; the longest is 90 minutes of live coding with engineers, and the last one checks whether you share the company's values. The posts ask for professional English, not French.

• What the Capgemini France interview is like

  Capgemini is one of the world's largest IT services consultancies, and in France it hires engineers and consultants for client projects. Its official process is generic: a short application, interviews with HR and with the business side, and sometimes an English test and a technical test. In France the interview is usually in French.

• What the Datadog Paris interview is like

  Datadog, the New York-based monitoring and observability platform, runs one of its most established engineering hubs in Paris. Its official process is short to describe but demanding: coding and design interviews, at least one step in person and written rules on AI use. The work happens in English, and Datadog itself says French is not required.

• What the Criteo interview is like

  Criteo, the Paris-founded advertising and commerce-media company, explains its process on an official page and warns that there is no one-size-fits-all approach. For engineering, candidates describe medium-level coding rounds, a system design round and a behavioural one. The job posts ask for English and do not mention French.