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Backend Engineer Interview Experience - Remote, Oregon

June 1, 2019
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Participated in three of four one-to-one interviews:

  1. Screening session with the hiring manager. This is a general 'get to know you' session and is also a great opportunity to get to understand the company a bit more and what you could potentially be working on. This interview lasted roughly 45 minutes.
  2. Take-home coding exercise and follow-up review. The coding exercise takes roughly 2 hours, with the follow-up interview being one hour.
  3. Systems architecture interview (question below). This interview lasted roughly 1 hour.

I thought all the interviews went well, but didn't get an offer. The interactions with the company were all conducted professionally. From an outsider's perspective, I had good impressions of the company.

Questions

Presented with a small design for an image conversion service. A few different scenarios are presented with increasingly complex requirements. The aim of the exercise is to discuss how to architect improvements to said system that are scalable, available and production-ready.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the CircleCI Backend Engineer role in Remote, Oregon.

Success Rate

0%
Pass Rate

CircleCI's interview process for their Backend Engineer roles in Remote, Oregon is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive100%
Neutral0%
Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for CircleCI's Backend Engineer interview process in Remote, Oregon.