I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Sayari (Tampa, FL) in May 2025
Interview
Pretty good. Have to do a take home assignment. First round is hiring manager behavioral questions. Next round was take home assignment. Last round was code review with hiring manager + software engineers on the team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Company focus a lot on database
Ask about a project that uses Postgres database (focus heavy on database knowledge but I kinda fail this)
Ask about a time that I collaborate in a team
Ask about a time I lead a team
Ask about wether or not have I been in (or led) an agile team, familiarity using tools such as agile
Final round: code review with back-end development team + hiring manager
+ Entire code base run through
+ Ask very, very, very in depth questions about database design choice
+ why split into 2 tables
+ why body is text and not varchar
+ what is packagelock.json