The onsite interview was pretty basic: two coding and two "design architecture" questions.

The funny thing was, the first design question wasn't a design question at all. They had me confused with sending a "data engineer" to interview me. The guy literally asked a question that didn't have a software design aspect to it at all. Every time I was talking about scale or possible use cases of a microservice, he would just stare at me or make an annoying noise.

Regardless, in the end, it turned out he was looking for some SQL syntaxes. Basically, I rambled on for a while talking about scalability. It seems like scale is not an issue for this company, given ~10,000 major transactions/year.

If you're coming from a FANG company with real scaling issues, you would know that this is just a joke. The interviewer was rude, given his poor knowledge. Please stay away from this waste of time.

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