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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Canada

September 1, 2023
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Process

The interview process went like this:

  1. Some email back and forth with the recruiter.
  2. Hiring manager chat. Some behavioral and technical questions.
  3. Technical round 1: Live coding, a simple problem around writing a program for parsing log files, then an exercise to write a bash script.
  4. Technical round 2: Talk through system design for a couple of scenarios.
  5. Technical round 3: Linux/Operations. This one was half trivia about Linux and Docker, etc., and then a live debugging session to debug a networking issue over an SSH session.
  6. Team Fit interview: behavioral questions around conflict, communication, etc.

Everyone I talked to was nice. One interviewer was visibly not paying attention and asked duplicate questions. The live coding session was a bit chaotic. The debugging session was kinda neat. They were vague and cagey about specifics of the project I would actually work on. It seemed like there was a lot of organizational confusion. My interviewers were honest about their big corporation woes. Base pay was low, but stocks, perks, and signing bonus were pretty good. I declined, and they came back quite aggressively with higher numbers. The recruiter was kinda pushy. It seemed like a good place to coast along at a big corporation.

Questions

Design a system for preventing insecure containers being deployed into production.

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