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There wasn't really a challenging interview question anywhere to be seen in the entire process. The technical interview was very soft and the interviewers didn't seem very confident in asking questions or having a technical discussion. It was a lot like being interviewed by a bunch of junior engineers. What it really boiled down to is that there was no personal chemistry between myself and the interviewers. They didn't like my style, and I really didn't much care for theirs either. The problem for the management of the company is that this kind of filtration and selection process might produce a group of people who can get along in an elevator, but it is not going to secure you the kind of engineering talent you need for when things get hard.
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Remote

3.4★
Aug 4, 2023

There wasn't really a challenging interview question anywhere to be seen in the entire process. The technical interview was very soft and the interviewers didn't seem very confident in asking questions or having a technical discussion. It was a lot like being interviewed by a bunch of junior engineers. What it really boiled down to is that there was no personal chemistry between myself and the interviewers. They didn't like my style, and I really didn't much care for theirs either. The problem for the management of the company is that this kind of filtration and selection process might produce a group of people who can get along in an elevator, but it is not going to secure you the kind of engineering talent you need for when things get hard.

A lot of the interview questions I got are some of the most common interview questions that are being asked recently, so you don't really need to prepare that hard assuming you've done other interviews recently. The technical questions are about Elixir basics, so I suggest brushing up on the intro documentation for Elixir and Phoenix before getting into the technical interviews. The take home exam is about building a REST API using Elixir and Phoenix. The exam itself is pretty simple, but they're requiring you to modify the seed file to create thousands of records which suggests that they want you to think about scaling throughout the exam.
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Remote

3.4★
Apr 27, 2024

A lot of the interview questions I got are some of the most common interview questions that are being asked recently, so you don't really need to prepare that hard assuming you've done other interviews recently. The technical questions are about Elixir basics, so I suggest brushing up on the intro documentation for Elixir and Phoenix before getting into the technical interviews. The take home exam is about building a REST API using Elixir and Phoenix. The exam itself is pretty simple, but they're requiring you to modify the seed file to create thousands of records which suggests that they want you to think about scaling throughout the exam.

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