Actual interview experience was ok, people were relatively friendly, except that one interviewer misread my resume and then grilled me on part of their misunderstanding. I felt about 80% of my questions were answered.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain how you approach migrating a lot of data from one source to another.
I applied online. I interviewed at Discover (Chicago, IL) in Jan 2021
Interview
Apply through website. Contact by recruiter. Remote meeting with Recruiter.
Job posting was all over the place, but failed to communicate that they were looking for an embedded reliability engineer.
I finally teased this information out of the recruiter. The skillsets they were advertising for were more aligned with a Java software developer than a cloud infrastructure engineer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you have experience supporting large Java based web-apps?
Farnborough, Hampshire, South East England, England
Accepted offer
Positive experience
Easy interview
Application
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Discover (Farnborough, Hampshire, South East England, England) in Dec 2019
Interview
Face to face interview on soft skills, prior experience and typical interview coding challenge. Not terribly technical, more interested in getting the right type of personality. Tech stack was made clear beforehand so technical questions were not unexpected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe your greatest achievement at a previous place of work.