I still enjoy working with most folks outside of my timeline, performance, deliverables, attendance, and hyper-focused colleagues.
As annual reviews become due, the mood becomes nervous and somewhat hostile. Post-COVID, post-return-to-office annual reviews, done by a lot of recently hired directors, seem to bring a general fear.
Decide what's most important to you and either move us along or be supportive.
In this first round was a coding test. There were two questions of easy to medium level, and then a recorded video interview was held. There were two behavioral questions, given 30 seconds to prepare each answer.
I was asked about C++ questions, Linux, SQL query optimization, and index tuning. I met with 4 people in the team. All of them were very nice and easy to work with.
Quick telephone interview with a friendly HR team. Fairly casual for a large company. Didn't feel too pressured to come up with technical answers. Got the feeling that they mainly wanted to get a vibe, having already checked the resume.
In this first round was a coding test. There were two questions of easy to medium level, and then a recorded video interview was held. There were two behavioral questions, given 30 seconds to prepare each answer.
I was asked about C++ questions, Linux, SQL query optimization, and index tuning. I met with 4 people in the team. All of them were very nice and easy to work with.
Quick telephone interview with a friendly HR team. Fairly casual for a large company. Didn't feel too pressured to come up with technical answers. Got the feeling that they mainly wanted to get a vibe, having already checked the resume.