• HR Interview

Concise and focused, yet the interviewer's seriousness gave me the impression that they were looking for someone to work under extremely demanding conditions.

• Take-home test

Need to develop several APIs in Node.js, integrated with an SQLite database. This includes managing transactions and locking mechanisms, which are not extensively supported by SQLite.

• Technical Round

The vibe from this interview was similar to the HR interview, but intensified. The interviewer came across as sarcastic, focusing on open-ended, discussion-based questions. My responses were concise, emphasizing aspects I believed were most relevant to the development process. However, the interviewer often diverted the conversation to points I hadn't mentioned, rather than facilitating a more constructive dialogue. Additionally, due to the interviewer's limited proficiency in English, communication was challenging. Despite my efforts to discuss topics like ACID properties, my points were initially dismissed, only for the interviewer to later address those very points himself.

I confidently handled the queries and problem-solving questions, demonstrating full competency in those areas. Nevertheless, midway through the interview, I sensed that working in this team might not allow me to maintain my mental well-being. I think it was a good interview to fail.

• Evaluation of test by sharing screen.
• Acid properties, transactions, and locking.
• Why Node.js is single-threaded.
• How can you scale a Node.js app vertically?
• Do you consider Node.js for CPU-intensive tasks?
• Employee and Department with a one-to-many relation.
• Employee and Department with a many-to-many relation.
• Write a query to display all departments having no employees assigned with respect to a many-to-many relation.