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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Sobeys (Mississauga, ON) in May 2026
Interview
Firstly the Application developer role at Sobeys can mean different things, this is for the Azure/ C# .NET role. The Hiring manager was pretty chill, most of the questions came from the vibe at the moment so it might not necessary be the same but the theme for sure is optimizing, scaling and performance. 1 technical and 1 behavioural question threw me off. 2-3 behavioural questions - What makes you a god fit for the role, Tell one time where you have helped a coworker and it didn't benefit you in your role in anyway, One time you made a mistake at work how you fixed it and how you made sure you didn't make the same mistake going forward.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. if you had performance issues with a lambda function where or what strategies will you use to drill down the cause of it. 2. You have a container app that takes request with a queue processes it and sends it into another queue, what will be the best approach to scale this type of app - 2 good answers for this is look into CPU usage and the Manager suggested looking into the load in the queues and depending on that implement scaling decisions. 3. How would you optimize your database application (So like caching and indexing). 4. in c# can you extent and modify a private method in another class.
Long, grueling, unrewarding and no timely communication from hiring managers throughout the process. I'd reach out to HM for an update only to get a response like a week later that was unclear / fuzzy at best.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Sobeys (Halifax, NS) in Feb 2025
Interview
there were 3 interviews. First with recruiter, second with the hiring manager and techincial person. Final one with director and project lead. Id say everyone was friendly but also inexperienced. They all mentioned that they have only been working there for a couple months.