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Lead Backend Engineer Interview Experience - Austria

March 1, 2026
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

It HR screening, then supposed pair programming session, system design, then cultural fit. The pair programming was a disaster, late interviewers, unaware and unprepared of their own script.

They supposed to have shared a zip package with me the day before, I only got it 20min in the interview already. To make things better, I asked which dev env I should setup before the interview, and I got, with anything you prefer, then the zip they shared was a NodeJs project (???) + Kotlin + Gradle, depending on outdated JDK version.

So interviewers spent most of the time pushing me to fix my environment instead of doing what we actually needed to do. One of the interviewers just kept doing doubting questions, like, are you sure DDD is like this, why you thing so, why you created classes with this name, is this following hexagonal? Are you sure? Quite annoying, which, what supposed to be a pair programming session it was a complete waste of time for me.

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N26's interview process for their Lead Backend Engineer roles in Austria is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for N26's Lead Backend Engineer interview process in Austria.