Solace Senior Fullstack Developer interview questions

The first interview was a one-hour coding session in a large repo. I’d recommend using a large monitor because the setup has four different panels open at once: the IDE, preview, instructions/explanation, and command line. The task itself was fairly manageable. However, communication afterward was slow. I did not hear back from the recruiter, so I followed up after a week and only then learned that I had passed. The second interview was scheduled three weeks later, so by that point I was already about a month into the process. This interview focused on implementing pagination. There were two interviewers, and they were great. They were easy to talk to, polite, and professional. That said, the task was demanding for a one-hour interview. I was expected to quickly understand a codebase I had never worked with, implement new functionality, and fix bugs in an unfamiliar environment, all while two people were watching. I do not necessarily blame them. Maybe they are looking for candidates who can move extremely quickly in that kind of setting. I was not able to complete the full pagination implementation within the hour. After the interview, communication was again an issue. I did not hear anything for a week, so I emailed the recruiter and did not get a response. About 3 days later, I received a rejection. So whole process took 6 weeks. Overall, I would say the technical interview experience itself was better than typical FAANG-style LeetCode interviews. The tasks were closer to real work, which I appreciated. However, the process still seemed to favor speed, pattern recognition, familiarity with the exact tech stack, and a bit of luck.