Software Engineer, Backend Interview Experience - Portugal
Process
The interview process was a bit strange. I was contacted via LinkedIn, and they seemed insistent on having a video call, which I accepted.
However, the interview was scheduled with a different person, which I found odd. Nevertheless, we had a 30-minute interview. It didn't go so well, partially because although I am familiar with concepts like Big O notation, SOLID, and ACID, I learned about them in college and in my native language. I understand them, but it's not easy for me to explain what each letter means. In my opinion, it would have been more interesting to have examples of bad code or practices and then ask why they weren't good practices.
The strangest part of all this was that they did not ask for my CV once. They seemed really fixated on a couple of points and didn't try to give me space to talk about myself and what I could offer.
It wasn't bad overall, but it did feel like instead of an interview, they should have just sent a quiz where we could check certain points.
Questions
SOLID, ACID, multithreading, database transactions
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Revolut's interview process for their Software Engineer, Backend roles in Portugal is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
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