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      Software Engineer Interview

      14 Dec 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at CommentSold in Nov 2020

      Interview

      5 stages: - HR phone screen (30-45 mins) - Meet & Greet with Engineering Lead (30-45 mins) - Systems Design with Engineering Lead and others (75 min) - Take home assignment (4 hours min. Develop an API with database) - Review code, and further code tests with Engineering Lead and others (75 mins) Overall a very length process that took place over the course of a month, which was fine for my timeline. The actual stages however, were longer than Google and Amazon, with a base salary to match a lower E4/SDE 2 offer. The team as a whole seemed like nice people, and the company seems to be in a stage of growth. There were very direct lines of communication for all stages, except when being declined after effectively 8 hours of interviewing. A generic automated email, with no response to asking for a feedback.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How would you failover a database that was running in production? How would you ensure locking on concurrent writes to a database? How would you design a system for X requests/second, and scale appropriately? Code an API that can implement the above with locking, assume concurrent connections etc.
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