Process
A recruiter contacted me via LinkedIn. I submitted my resume.
- Take-home coding exam via Codility - 2 hours.
- Phone screen - mostly .NET related - 30 minutes.
- Phone screen - coding (Algos and SQL) - 1 hour.
- Onsite - 8 people - Boring - Mostly SQL - 8 hours.
Apparently, they don't have a database team, so they asked me a lot of SQL, which I wasn't really prepared for.
The interviewers were from different teams. They weren't sure what role I was interviewing for, so they asked me all sorts of questions (including obsolete web services).
Working over weekends and long hours is pretty normal and expected of everyone. They still run like a startup. Different teams use different stacks.
Questions
Mostly SQL. I assume all the interviewers were middleware and backend engineers.
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