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      Cloud Systems Engineer Interview

      20 Aug 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Checkout.com (London, England) in June 2021

      Interview

      Process: 1. 30min HR screen video call 2. 30min call with an engineer 3. take home terraform test 4. another 30 min call with the same engineer, 1 hour talk with hiring manager Overall the interview experience was not fantastic. HR were very friendly and good throughout the process, but the technical interview was quite poor. The first 30 minute call with an engineer was not technically challenging at all, but it was a first round call so not hugely surprising. I was then given a terraform take home test, which was quite straightforward. Apparently I was supposed to have a meeting with somebody to review my code, but I just received an email saying I had passed. The second time I spoke to the engineer he said it was odd nobody had reviewed it and took a quick look at the time - it seemed like his terraform skills were quite basic as I had to explain various concepts and reasoning such as applying the output of a previous plan rather than just applying, and he gave the code a rubber stamp without really looking. This slightly annoyed me as I spent a fair amount of time on the assessment, and it was barely looked at by the reviewer. He wasn't particularly prepared as he didn't have any questions and was quite obviously making things up as he went along, asking things like "what runs on port 21" and "where might you find logs on a windows server". All the questions he asked were very basic and had short answers. The 1 hour call with the hiring manager was good, he mainly assessed soft-skills, career background and team fit. Ultimately I didn't receive an offer despite successfully completing all the technical questions, apparently because they decided the role wouldn't be exciting enough and I would probably not stay at the company for long and they couldn't offer me work on shiny new technologies (containers, serverless etc). They also only told me at the end that weren't willing to pay the salary I requested, despite this being in the range we discussed at our initial call. Tech stack also seems outdated from what I can tell, so be warned. TLDR; friendly people although unorganised, not challenging technically interview, old tech

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      - Take home: build a HA web server in AWS using terraform with scaling, security, availability, etc in mind - Where might you find logs on a Windows/Linux machine? - What runs on port 21? - I have a cluster of web servers that are spontaneously 500'ing, how would you diagnose? - How would you resolve conflict with someone in another team? - Where do you see yourself in 5 years? - Why Checkout.com?
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      Checkout.com response
      4y
      Hi there, Thank you for taking the time to leave us such a thorough review on your interview experience with us. We’re happy to hear you felt well guided through the process by our recruitment team, and that you enjoyed meeting the hiring manager as part of the process. That being said there are clearly some areas you’ve flagged that you think could do with improvement and we will be circulating your comments with the right teams internally to help us continue to improve the process. We know how much time goes into preparing for interviews, and our technical tests which always deserve proper detailed feedback. We also want to avoid any surprises or contradictory messaging at offer stage so we’re sorry it looks like that happened here. Thank you for your interest in joining us at Checkout.com and the investment you put into the hiring process. Good luck with the rest of your search and thank you again for the feedback. The People Team

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      Cloud Systems Engineer Interview

      27 Feb 2021
      Anonymous employee
      London, England
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Checkout.com (London, England) in Jan 2021

      Interview

      1. 1:1 Phone screening round by one of the Cloud Systems Engineer. 2. Technical test emailed to me by recruiter. 3. Group call with two cloud systems engineers. 4. 1:1 call with hiring manager. 5. HR round.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Most of the questions were asked related to the technical test. Some of the questions are based on out of the box thinking. Q: Explain configuration of Jenkins pipeline with terraform. Q: Difference between NACLs and NAT Gateway.
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      Checkout.com response
      5y
      Hi, Congratulations, we’re so happy you accepted the offer. Welcome to Checkout.com! The People Team