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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom

October 8, 2021
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online.

There was a normal video call to get to know each other and discuss the layout of the coming phases, which was nothing special. After this, they send you a code to refactor, and they tell you that it shouldn't take more than 2 hours, but they expect it within a week.

I refactored the code, implemented DDD architecture, and mentioned some of the stuff that could be improved, such as testing and logging. I am adding this review because I think I wasted my time doing this task. They expect you to do everything, ignoring the 2-hour timeframe, so other than the rearchitecture, they want to see unit testing, integration testing, and a dockerised app. So, if you are not willing to do all this stuff, don't bother!

Questions

Refactor this code? (zip file)

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