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Principal Software Engineer Interview Experience - Barcelona, Spain

October 1, 2022
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

  1. Recruiter screening
  2. Technical interview - 60-minute chat about general software development concepts
  3. Behavioural interview
  4. Home test: They mention it can be done within 4-5 days but give you a week.

Questions

The tech questions are very generic about software development principles:

  • Recursion vs iteration
  • Heap vs stack
  • DI
  • TDD
  • Time & space complexity
  • Concurrency and multithreading

The home test was an absolute waste of time. I can't give much information, but it was simple. It was more about the quality of the tests, handling highly concurrent scenarios, and whatnot. The funny thing is that the feedback they provided was not even about what I submitted. It was like they reviewed someone else's code.

I asked for a second review or at least for them to double-check that they didn't mix up reviews, but I didn't hear back from them. Very disrespectful and unprofessional.

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