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      Lead Software Engineer Interview

      2 Nov 2023
      Anonymous employee
      Boston, MA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at DraftKings (Boston, MA) in Apr 2022

      Interview

      Algo screener followed by a back to back multistage stage system design and behavioral interview. Be comfortable with medium leet code type questions, class based design and describing past work in detail.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      In depth questions on past work at the final stage of the interview.
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      Lead Software Engineer Interview

      22 Mar 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Dublin, Dublin
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at DraftKings (Dublin, Dublin)

      Interview

      Four parts interview: Technical coding test in C# language. see questions below. Team dynamics, (behavioral) System Design: including OOAD excercise. Technical deep dive: impacts driven, opportunity and show case one project you worked on previously. Followed by a recuiter's debrief of a 2 minute call, which I was epxecting to give me a decison, rather the recruiter just said we will let you know. They use hacker rank for everything. To be honest its the worst tool and very unusfull for design interviews, rather than focusing on your approach, you bump into learning how to use the hacker rank drawing tool as its awefull.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Draft Kings: Data structure and algorithms: refactoring and scalablity and run time of code. Complete in java or c#. Interviewer was nice, gentle, and helping out with hints with good communication skills. Hacker rank: Customer Discounts Validation. given objects of ICollection 1. Validate No customers have more than three discounts, 2. Validate no customers have more than 20 % collective discount given from their previously year spend. 3. Validate that each discount is assigned to atleast one customer 4. Based on yearly customer spend, seggregate customers into A,B,C classes for discounts where doscount C > B > A. (Key here is to load all the data in disctionaries and do the fast dictionary lookups, however, tell them that where data is huge this might cause problem of loading millions of records in memory) Senior Software Engineering Manager- Team Dynamic interview: - Introduced himself, and the company, teams he is managing, Asked about my background, leadership capabilities, mentorship, problem handling in teams, teams learning capabilities. He also asked situation based questions like, What If scenarios? When did you went above and beyound, how did you handle if a team member is constanly lagging progres, How did you handle requests for immidiate bug fixing in live products? etc Lead Software Engineer- Object Oriented Design interview: - Designing a Restaurant order managemnt system: given the waiters are Robots not humans. Interviewer presented with different scenarios, asked questions on my approach, and inquired about how to extend the design to add more capabilities like introducing a cleaning robots. What functions could be made common among waiters etc. Software Engineering Manager- Technical Deep Dive Interview: - Had a call: interviewer introduced himself. Then I started on a project of my own choosing to walk him through on the architecture and OOD design of the software. External tools used in the system, alternatives that could be used. Some of the challenges and bottlenecks of the system. Problems faced and how did you fixed those. As my project was on a public cloud provider for most parts, I also had some custom code written with heavey usage of event's handling by the cloud component, rather than hand built scalability, security, DR, or resilience etc. The interviewer didn't look satisified, and was probably looking for me to build everything by a coding langugage. 14:30-14:45- Erin Kinback - Talent Acquisition Lead- Recruiter Debrief - A two minute call with Recruiter, she just asked about how was the porcess overall and if I had any questions. She informed me that it will take a week or so to accumulate the feedback from everyone. She will keep me posted.
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      Lead Software Engineer Interview

      14 June 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at DraftKings

      Interview

      Interviewer was late and seemed unprepared. They were distracted throughout our conversation, and I had to keep reminding them to answer my questions. The questions they asked were too basic for a lead role. It made me question how the company assesses advanced skills for high-level positions. Overall, the interview process lacked the professionalism and thoroughness you'd expect for a senior+ level job.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Same data validation as mentioned.
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      DraftKings response
      1y
      Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We sincerely apologize for the experience you had during your interview process. At DraftKings, we value the time and effort that every candidate invests in our recruitment process. We are committed to respecting candidates' time and ensuring that every interview is conducted with the utmost professionalism. Your feedback is essential in helping us improve and ensuring that our teams come to every interview fully prepared and minimizing any potential distractions. Thank you again for your honest feedback. We hope to have the opportunity to show you a better experience in the future.