I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Deliveroo (Bengaluru) in Jul 2024
Interview
6 rounds in total
1. Initial screening round - discussion on past experience and compensation expectations. there is one huge negative aspect to their hiring process. The recruiter says they might offer you a lower level if they think your performance during the interview wasnt up to the mark. the compensation offered would be significantly different for the lower position.
2. past experience/explain a project - pretty straightforward, interviewer hardly spoke.
3. SQL coding round - more or less simple questions. they say you wont be penalised if you don't know SQL, but they do. In my case, I couldnt remember how to compute a cumulative sum and how to get the week number on SQL. the guidelines mentioned in their doc are bogus. My interviewer himself didnt know the exact function to use for a certain question. But, I was penalised for not remembering how to perform a certain operation later on in the round
4. Behavioral questions - I was penalised for "lack of ambiguity in the projects discussed". random round.
5. Deliveroo case study assignment - they'll penalise you for not including metrics/columns that aren't available in the sample data set they provide you. even if you answer the question when prompted on the missing metric, you'll still be penalised.
6. case study round - this was the worst round. Very rude interviewer. She interrupted me multiple times before I would even finish my answer. Extremely impatient. at one point she even got angry about me not knowing we couldnt split orders based on certain conditions for the control and treatment groups. I'm not from the ecommerce space. How would I have knowledge of this? Her feedback was that I don't communicate very well and that I dont have knowledge of statistical concepts. Extremely disheartening experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In case any one wishes to interview for this company, look up how to perform cumulative sums, ranking within groups on SQL.
I can't recommend anything for the case study rounds. just hope you dont get interviewed by some of their rude staff.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Deliveroo (London, England) in Jun 2026
Interview
1- Initial phone interview: salary expectations, why you want a change, notice period etc.
2- Technical interview: a 45 minute interview where more in-depth questions were asked about my experience and the new role requirements particularly on experimentation.
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Question 1
How would you test the impact of increasing riders pay by £1 for accepting higher than 2km distance jobs.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Deliveroo (London, England) in Apr 2026
Interview
Recruiter call, technical screen, two case studies, take home test, behaviour interview. 6 weeks. Interviewers were nice, recruiter was helpful. Need to know your A/B testing, causal inference, regression design, and have strong commercial acumen and strong presentation/communication skills.
Taken through the entire process to hiring committee. Told there wasn't even a position available anymore at the end and I didn't reach the level for the role or the level below. Be prepared to be passed through multiple stages and technical screens under the impression it's going well but then to receive bad feedback and no offer. In the end felt like a very strange end to a long process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you test the success of a rider scheme which offers £1 extra to orders over 5km away?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Deliveroo (London, England) in Aug 2025
Interview
They interview for a level (SDS) not a specific role in a team. After all 6 interviews I was non the wiser as to what area there were jobs available in which was very frustrating. This meant I couldn't gain any feel for the potential work or team environment in talking to the interviewers.
The interview process is long but well detailed: recruiter/HR call, stage 1 technical interview, then a 4 stage loop of SQL, Stakeholder, Presentation, and Case Study. Although the four stage loop is long, in total it felt similar to other interviews where they would be combined into one or two interviews.
I was repeatedly told the role was about taking a wide problem and developing it into a detailed, clear problem space yet the case study was not at all like this. Although I excelled at the other 3 loop interviews, I fell down on the case study. I was given a statistical experimentation case study (not a role I was after) because there were several roles like that availble. As this was focused on experimentation - not ML as I clearly stated I was after - I felt like my time had been wasted.
Aside from this, the interviews were well detailed in advance and the interviewers very lovely and their enthusiasm for their roles shone though. They focused more on communication than technical skill with the only coding interview basic SQL (grouping, joining, windows) and no technical questions about machine learning, or dealing with large data.
Case study: A stakeholder shows you a graph of number of restaurants vs order rate, and says "If we increase the restaurants available to customers would that lead to growth of orders?". Discuss.
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Question 1
Case study: A stakeholder shows you a graph of number of restaurants vs order rate, and says "This data shows that if we increase the restaurants available to customers would that lead to growth of orders?". Discuss.