Agoda | SDE-2 (SSE) | Bangkok | Offer
Status: B.Tech, 4 YOE, Backend / GenAI
Position: Senior Software Engineer (SDE-2) at Agoda
Location: Bangkok, Thailand (applied from India)
Verdict: Selected ✅
Sharing my Agoda Bangkok SDE-2 interview experience, since the LeetCode Discuss posts for this loop really helped me. The process took around 6 weeks: a recruiter screen, then 2 coding rounds, 2 design rounds and 1 hiring manager round. Every round was 60 minutes, and the interviewers were friendly.
Round 0: Recruiter Screening (30 min)
- Intro, current role, tech stack, notice period, expectations
- Why Agoda? Why Bangkok?
Round 1: DSA (60 min, HackerRank CodePair)
Full working code was required, and it was tested against their own test cases.
- Q1: Reverse the words in a string (
"Hello Bangkok:)"→"Bangkok:) Hello") - Q2: Can Place Flowers (LeetCode 605)
Prep: Striver's DSA course and sheets, plus LeetCode easy/medium.
▶ https://takeuforward.org/
Round 2: Coding with OOP/LLD (60 min, Java)
- Q1: Design a Banking System (accounts, transactions, transfers)
Prep: Shreyansh Jain's LLD playlist on YouTube.
▶ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6W8uoQQ2c61X_9e6Net0WdYZidm7zooW&si=ZfMvHI_QauR-2e_3
Round 3: System Design / HLD (60 min)
- Q1: Design a Location Sharing App (with time and location based sharing restrictions)
Prep: System design book
▶ https://www.targettrek.in/book/system-design/hld
Recruiter Check-in
The recruiter shared feedback from the earlier rounds and checked my expectations before the next ones.
Round 4: Architecture / Platform Design (60 min)
- Q1: Design WhatsApp
Prep: Same HLD book as above.
▶ https://www.targettrek.in/book/system-design/hld
Round 5: Hiring Manager / Cultural Fit (60 min)
- Deep dive into my current project and architecture
- Situational and behavioural questions (conflict, ownership, deadlines, mentoring)
- Python,GenAI concepts
- Why Agoda? Why switch? Why Bangkok?
Outcome
The recruiter called with a positive result, followed by discussion on level, compensation and relocation. I received the SDE-2 / Senior Software Engineer offer 🎉
Happy to answer questions in the comments. Good luck! 🙌
