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      Senior Backend Engineer Interview

      5 Feb 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Doist in Jan 2024

      Interview

      Only made it to the first part of the process which was "Value alignment interview with Gonçalo Silva, our CTO & interim Head of Backend." This wasn't just a value alignment interview and was actually just a standard technical interview where I was asked 2 straightforward technical questions and then a few questions about my experience. It seems odd to frame it as a value alignment interview when half of it is focused on technical questions. The two technical questions where very open ended and the interviewer gave very little feedback throughout. The experience questions were standard "tell me about a time when..." prompts but the interviewer did not ask any follow up questions which left me unsure of what he wanted out of my answers. There was plenty of time to ask questions at the end of the interview which was nice.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      One line python method that opens a file in read/write mode, reads the raw contents, right strips the content string, and returns it. The question is "what's wrong with the method?"
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Explain sharding, partitioning, and replication.
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Tell me about a time you did something unexpected that had a lot of impact.
      Answer question

      Question 4

      Tell me about a time you worked on something that wasn't a part of your day to day work.
      Answer question
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