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Front-End Engineer Interview Experience - Stockholm, Sweden

August 1, 2021
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

After applying, they contacted me about the coding test. The coding test consisted of two questions.

The interesting point was that after you completed the solution, it was waiting for you to write unit tests for the solution you developed. So I'd say it was a test focused on TDD.

So far, everything was great. The questions were not extreme, and my answers were not excessive. At the same time, I wrote the unit tests in a way that included edge cases, because they expect you to write production-ready code.

However, after finishing the second question, I realized that one of the unit tests for the question was completely wrong. It expected a wrong output from the method I wrote. I noticed this, of course, after I (so to speak) "hacked" and debugged the unit test. I wrote the correct ones, detailed the problem, and submitted.

Two days later, they came back with a "great" response: "They didn't like the code I wrote for the second question." But there's no logical justification! If you say you don't like something, you have to express problems and offer solutions. If you're just saying it's bad, I'm sorry, it doesn't work that way. Also, the second question you asked doesn't even have running, correct unit tests. It's like a joke!

You asked a question that had the wrong unit test. I explained to you in detail, articulated the problem, and wrote the correct ones. Look at the response I got. Enormous.

Questions

Nothing - just the coding test.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Klarna Front-End Engineer role in Stockholm, Sweden.

Success Rate

50%
Pass Rate

Klarna's interview process for their Front-End Engineer roles in Stockholm, Sweden is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral0%
Negative50%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Klarna's Front-End Engineer interview process in Stockholm, Sweden.

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