Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 1 semana. Acudí a una entrevista en Etsy (Dublín, Dublín) en mar 2021
Entrevista
poor interview process at Dublin, devoid of any logic: after enquiry with friends working there, got to know that they have senior engineering managers that have zero coding experience & have been in operations role all their life, but have been asked to build "worls class software development teams", not sure if that can be done by hiring managers with no coding background at all .
Opeque process : have to give a test which is a ui front end & written in node js & express & they ask candidates to fix bugs under a certain time limit, even if the candidates have no/zero experience in node js, yoi are not allowed to choose your language as with normal tests, when i enquired about this, they said they dont check the knowledge of language and are just evaluating you on whether you can work with an app/stack that you have not worked in the past, i fixed 2 out of 3 bugs, because the app is all ui, you know you have fixed the bugs when you see changes in ui, dint clear the round & was surprised, asked the hr and they said it was because of the performance in test, but refused to give out any further details.
Thats how good companies get destroyed when you install sub par leadership & they run their own kingdoms sucking up all the resources
Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en Etsy
Entrevista
First round with the HR on experience, second behavior leadership principle questions, third was a system design question that was given earlier to create a design for chat systems. The interviewer wanted to focus only on the database part, the interviewer wanted to deep dive on the postgreSQL/RDBMS database and was not open to discuss or paid any interest any other aspects, was not engaged enough to hear any answers of pro's and con's of other NoSQL vs SQL options. It would have been nice if it was an engaging design conversation. The interviewer asked to show table schema of NoSQL databases, explained clearly on how it would look like and how the paritioning, read replicas work but the interviewer only wanted to get 100% exact queries to create tables, columns etc and was interested only in the SQL RDBMS aspect.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Q, Design a chat system that will be used inside a company
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Etsy (Ciudad de México) en jun 2023
Entrevista
Phone screen with the recruiter to get to know about my career and technical abilities. Followed by an hour long leet code technical interview with a member of the team. Kind of a disappointment the technical interview was just a leet code exercise, I would've expected to have questions about system design and architecture due to the level they were hiring for.