I applied in-person. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Binance (Kuala Lumpur) in May 2025
Interview
Starting with self-introduction and project experience, followed by in-depth questions on backend fundamentals such as high concurrency, distributed systems, database sharding, and caching strategies. You may be asked to explain your approach to handling high QPS, ensuring cache consistency, and implementing distributed locks. Technical rounds also cover middleware (like Dubbo, Kafka, RocketMQ), thread pool management, and MySQL indexing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How does Kafka achieve high throughput, and what is zero-copy in Linux
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Binance (Taipei) in Dec 2021
Interview
without online coding assessment, there are 4 to 5 online interview stage, could be all in Chinese 1st and 2nd are about tech / language even system design problem 3rd with HR introducing the company and benefit 4th with BU Leader about your experience
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
java tech problem like lock, concurrent, thread, tree etc. db transaction, isolation, redis