I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Go City (London, England) in Dec 2025
Interview
Initial technical call with a technical lead/engineering manager detailing your technical background/experience and projects worked on, followed by an in-person pair programming interview conducted by 1/2 Go City engineers , followed by a systems design interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a simple API that includes a rest controller, business logic to aggregate data from client calls and serve this data back in a response body.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Go City (London, England) in Oct 2025
Interview
After a recruiter contacted me and told me more about the company and what they were looking for, I had setup the first initial call with the VP of engineering. Mostly, I had the opportunity to introduce myself, talk about why I was interested in the company and my experience as an IC and engineering manager. I felt most of the questions were very standard. At the end of the interview I had time to ask a couple of questions myself, so I took the opportunity and asked “you said you are a company that makes money mostly by selling holiday passes, what did you learn from COVID? Do you have any backup plans in case another global pandemic hits the world again?” It seems they didn’t prepare too much for that kind of question and I didn’t get a proper response. The call ended after that question.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Tell me the time you had to fire someone in your team.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Go City (London, England)
Interview
Initial video call with an Engineering Manager followed by a 3 stage in person process.
Code pairing exercise with 2 other engineers for the first stage, architectural exercise for the second stage and a chat with 2 engineering managers for a cultural fit for the final round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Draw an architectural diagram for a ticket booking system