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      Senior Backend Engineer Interview

      25 Apr 2022
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Toptal

      Interview

      3 steps 1st - simple talk like self introduction and stuff 2nd - problem solving (3 easy tasks and like.. a looot of time to solve them) 3rd - live coding (1 easy + 1 medium questions, 30 mins overall i.e. 15 mins each) 4th - take home project, easy one (takes like 5-10 hours for a mid/senior guy to finish) 5th - explain the project (also easy.. e.g. I just showed my tests and that was enough)

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      My name and my hourly rate (the rest is supposed to be confidential, sorry =))
      1 Answer
      3

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      Senior Backend Engineer Interview

      2 Dec 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Toptal in Dec 2021

      Interview

      1st stage - video presentation of yourself 2nd stage - algorythms interview (2 not hard tasks) 3rd stage - homework (quite a big assignment that took about 8-9 hours) 4th stage - interview with a seniour developer about the homework (run tests, tell about the solution, fix bugs) And I got a negative experience at the end since I was declined just because of couple of minor bugs. I'm sure 100% these guys do these bugs too. I don't understand what's the problem with a little bug if I covered with tests all other possible cases, they work fine and I was able to fix the bug right here right now? Waste of quite big amount of time. Super weird politics with zero bug tollerance.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      - How you authentication works?
      Answer question
      5