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SSr Software Developer Interview Experience - Buenos Aires, Argentina

May 1, 2025
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The team lead contacted me to speed up the search, as the People team usually takes their time, according to what they told me.

  1. Interview with the technical lead to introduce me to the project and the work methodology.
  2. Interview with the regional head of People to see if there's a match with the company's culture and values.
  3. Challenge. If I recall correctly, it was on HackerRank. Multiple-choice exam and a typical coding challenge. It's not complex, but you need to brush up.
  4. Technical interview with a technical lead and an EM. Here there are all basic questions about concurrency, scalability, optimization, databases, and a systems design part, where they present a case and ask you to find a way to achieve X objective. In my case, it was related to the use of Redis to alleviate the load on the main DB; I couldn't go into DB scaling strategies, only Redis.
  5. I didn't reach this stage, but I understand that the final interview is with some stakeholders, as they told me, and then comes the expected offer.

The salaries go in 3 tiers for Junior, Semi-senior, and Senior roles. Semi-senior was around 3.8 million gross, and seniors go for 4.5 million onwards. All have an extra of 250 dollars per month, which I believe were tax-free, plus money in Mercado Pago for purchases in large supermarkets and other benefits that rotate all the time.

Questions

  • If your code could speak, what would it say about you? - HR
  • Mention 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses - HR
  • What strategy can be followed with Redis to alleviate database load in Writing/Reading?
  • Concurrency, Multi-Thread, Processes, Goroutines.
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