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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      13 Oct 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Berlin
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Zalando (Berlin) in Oct 2022

      Interview

      Interview process is not ethical at all. As a first step you have to solve a coding assessment in Codility. After that HR arrange a technical interview. In that step Technical Manager sees your CV for the first time. If he doesn't like your CV, both of you waste 1 hour for nothing. My interview process: - First I passed the 2.5 hours coding assessment in Codility. - Interviewer believed that I'm not a good fit because recently I founded a startup and closed my company. I started with that question without any icebreakers. He asked irrelevant questions to make the interview harder for me. He even asked me a question about his academic paper which is totally unethical. It is obvious that interviewer already made his mind before interviewing me. Interview was a waste of time for me and for him. If he reviewed my CV as soon as I applied he would reject me. I solved the coding challenge in Codility for nothing.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Q: What are microservices monitoring and microservices observability? A: We can use new relic, kibana. (He didn't like the answer) Q: How do you choose the technology for a project. A: We can read related blogs, we can read benchmarks, also we can make our own benchmarks. (He didn't like the answer. He said we should check Garthner reports.) Q: Which index types mongodb has? A: I don't know Q: Which changes happened in Spring Ecosystem recently? A: Spring moved on the direction of Ruby on Rail. Convention over Configuration becomes the way. (He didn't like the answer. He said Spring cloud) Q: What is rest service digital signature? A: I don't know in detail. (That was his academic paper) Q: What are functional / nonfunctional requirements? A: Functional requirements are business requirements. Non functional requirements are more related to speed, software modularity, software scalability. (He didn't like the answer) Q: What are software metrics and business metrics? A: Business metrics are business related statistics. For a ecommerce project orders, customers, products can be business metrics. We can show them using business intelligence tools or Tableau. Software metrics can be requests, page views, all the other nonbusiness metrics. We can use newrelic to see them or similar tools. (He didn't like the answer) He didn't ask any Java questions. He didn't ask any SQL db question. He didn't ask any coding related question.
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      Zalando response
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      Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review and bringing this to our attention. We’re sorry to hear that you felt disappointed by the interview process. We fully commit to providing a positive experience to our candidates by ensuring a smooth process, transparency, and valuable feedback from the beginning. We design our recruiting practices to promote diversity and inclusion, and reduce structural disadvantages and biases, so that every candidate is treated with the same respect and openness. This also involves reconciling the expectations of both sides. We have since shared your feedback within our Talent Acquisition Team who are investigating in order to drive improvement where needed. We wish you all the best in your next career step. - Talent Acquisition Team

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