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Honestbee Recruiter's Take-Home Test Shows Hiring Process at a $1B Singapore Startup

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In 2018, Honestbee, a Southeast Asian grocery delivery startup valued near $1 billion, was actively recruiting talent worldwide. A candidate based in Italy described being contacted by its Talent Acquisition Partner and passing an initial recruiter screen, where his familiarity with Singapore was viewed favourably. He recounted an icebreaker moment in which he named Pepper Lunch's beef pepper rice as his favourite Singaporean dish, a choice the recruiter found amusing since the chain is Japanese. The candidate then received a take-home programming assignment and a senior data engineering job description that listed demanding technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes, and Airflow. The test required building Python web APIs using public Dota 2 data to produce player leaderboards, player comparisons, and hero recommendations, with the company emphasizing elegant and original code.

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