Met with a developer. He asked me about what I was currently working on, so I went over the architecture on a white board, and he asked a few questions. Told me it was pretty cool. Met with director, and talked about the role. Not a bad interview. Very fair.
Other Senior Software Engineer interview reviews for Bottomline
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Bottomline (Bengaluru) in Mar 2025
Interview
I applied through LinkedIn and was interviewed by Bottomline. The process took less than a week, The interview was average, was initially informed that there would be 3 rounds, Technical, Managerial and HR round. The first-round technical interview lasted only for 30 mins.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
2 Coding questions involving arrays and collections, followed by a couple more of tricky sql questions, then concepts on oops which I answered correctly. Asked me definition of 2 extensions used in retrieving data. Since I couldn't answer he ended the meeting. Seemed like he wasn't interested and who would even remember all the extension functions used?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Bottomline (Bengaluru)
Interview
Initially approached by a HR through phone and it took about 3 weeks for her to really get back. And when she did set up an interview, it was with wrong JD. and when I mailed her about it, she has corrected the JD but panel remained as is. She was insisting on attending the round.
The whole interview was a complete waste of my time and energy. Its an utter mockery to anyone's who is a verteran in the IT industry. I have never seen a company or a hiring manager who has a sent a junior member in his team to interview an incoming senior or I wonder if the interviewer was on bench because he lacks project exposure.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing relavent to the role.
Nothing relavent to your experience (I doubt if interviewer even understand half of my tech stack)
Some basic programming questions.
Interviewer lacks the audacity to judge the rightneouss of a question. (He accepts a couple of intentional wrong answers)
I got a feel that he never had a proper project experience or exposure to ask relavent questions.
