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Audio/Visual · 51 to 200 Employees · Calcutta, India
hoichoi is an on-demand video streaming entertainment platform for Bengalis worldwide. With an array of exciting Content choices including Bengali Classics, Blockbusters, Documentaries, Short Films, and Exclusive original web series it aims to be home to the best in Bengali entertainment.
Hiring: Engineering
What employees say
+ The culture is collaborative and welcoming, gives value to creativity
− Too much pressure on some days
More reviews on the company profile.
Interview experience · Customer Support Representative
Very straight forward and professional. It beings with questions about current experience ( they do not pushback for newbies as the role is doable easily by newbies) and then they ask a few more questions about what you
Average difficulty · India · 5 reports
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Overview
hoichoi is India's leading Bengali OTT platform, the digital arm of SVF, Eastern India's largest media & entertainment company.
Qualifications
- Default user of AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, etc.) on real shipped features — with at least one concrete example where AI generated significant code that you evaluated, debugged, or chose to override.
- Comfort with ambiguity: you can move without complete information and know when to decide independently versus when to ask.
- Familiarity with streaming or media tech: CDNs, adaptive bitrate, DRM, or video processing pipelines.
- Prior work on data pipelines, analytics integrations, or internal developer tooling.
- Exposure to LLM APIs, prompt engineering, or AI-augmented product features shipped to real users.
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Last updated 20 September 2026
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