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Agoda Staff Engineer — Bangkok — Selected - 8 years of experience
Basic details
Company: Agoda
Role: Staff Software Engineer
Location: Bangkok
YOE: 8
Education: B.E, Tier 3
Current company: Product-based, non-FAANG
Result: Selected
Round 1 — Coding
Two questions.
Q1: Monotonic stack / nearest smaller element.
Q2: Given an array of priorities, return the rank of every element. Higher number = higher rank.
Round 2 — Platform Design + Code Review
Setup: data supplied to multiple airline aggregators.
Issues discussed:
- No rate limiting
- Incorrect API methods
- Lack of horizontal scaling
- No DB replication
This discussion went on for around 40 minutes.
Other topics:
- Software testing
- Rolling out to limited traffic
Last 10–15 minutes: code review.
Example improvement discussed:
- Use strategy/factory pattern instead of long if-else chains
Round 3 — System Design
Prompt:
Build a flight aggregation system
Topics covered:
- Clarifications
- Functional requirements
- Non-functional requirements
- Core entities
- API design
- DB choice
- High-level design
- Deep dives
Round 4 — Culture Fit
Topics:
- Technical leadership
- Handling conflicts
- Pushing back on design decisions
Result
Selected. took multiple rejections before finally cracking this one.
Compensation details
Current base: ₹52L
Agoda offer:
- Title: Staff Software Engineer
- Location: Bangkok
- Base: 225k THB/month
- Joining bonus: 450k THB
- Yearly bonus: 19% of base, performance based
- Stocks: No stocks for Staff level
- Tax: 15% for expats
Other benefits:
- Visa support
- Relocation support
- One-time WFH allowance
Notes
Process may vary by team, level, and timing.
u/Impossible-Ad6436 — 14 hours ago