I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Gun.io (New York, NY)
Interview
Met and had a great conversation with an engineer with ample time to discuss our engineering practices and surface level details on my past projects.
Followed by a sadistic Codility test that appeared easier than it is. I completed it relatively quickly and passed the provided unit tests. However it failed when I submitted and I was fobbed off with an email.
As a former technical co-founder I've realized these puzzle tests are extremely poor indicators for talent and I feel sad for the engineer who wasted an hour of his time to chat with me beforehand.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Codility project to write a function that takes as input a message and K integer number of characters to fragment the message
the message must not end with a space and must contain only whole words. returns fragmented message. (possibly incomplete)
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Gun.io
Interview
Technical interview for a Backend Engineer position. Asked about how to use Domain-Driven Design to come up with a solution for a particular business problem.
Database optimization problems with PostgreSQL
Using caching to improve an existing codebase