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      Principal Application Engineer Interview

      8 Dec 2022
      Anonymous employee
      Riverwoods, IL

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      Principal Application Engineer Interview

      10 Apr 2023
      Anonymous employee
      Chicago, IL
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Discover (Riverwoods, IL) in Nov 2022

      Interview

      Found job posting on Linkedin and applied directly on company job portal. Recruiter contacted 2 days after my submission. It took 2 weeks to get the 1st tech round scheduled. Heard back from the recruiter after 1 week asking for availability for the next set of interviews. Wrapped up 4 rounds (1 tech, 1 SD and 2 Sr Mgr (behavioral) rounds) in a week. Heard back from the recruiter with a job offer just before ThanksGiving. The entire process took about 5 weeks. There is certainly a communication gap b/w recruiter and candidate. Compared to other orgs, the recruiters constantly keep in touch and provide awareness of the situation and progress which severely lacked here. Having said that, the hiring team is just amazing bunch of people. I had one of the best interviewing experience with them. All 5 folks are welcoming and make you feel relaxed and comfortable during the entire length of the interview. Looking forward to work with them.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Based on your prior and current experience. Deep questions on your current project. Microservices design patterns, SOLID principles, System design a distributed system that can process events in real time. RabbitMQ related questions.
      Answer question
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Discover (Chicago, IL) in Apr 2023

      Interview

      6 round of interviews happened (4 Technical + 2 behaviour). 1st technical screening of 1 hr. Next after 4-5 days got email for 3 interviews(on different days). 2nd Technical of 1 hr-1.5 hr. This was deep dive technical interview, followed by 2 behaviour together next day. After 2-3 days of waiting, got coding interview which lasted 2 hr. Leet type questions were asked. Than one final technical come design interview of 1 hr by discover distinguish engineer to decide which team you are fit the most.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Technical consist of some design (singleton pattern in details), leet coding exercise consist of 2 questions to code in 1 hr., technical questions on Angular/Spring Boot/Microservices/Kafka/ CI CD Deployment scenario questions, Cloud experience and deployment w.r.t Kubernetes, If you have worked on these, you should not face enough problem, if you have not worked on it, don't bluff.
      Answer question
      5

      Principal Applications Engineer Interview

      24 Apr 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Chicago, IL
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Discover (Chicago, IL) in Apr 2022

      Interview

      Has a initial round with recruiter and then 1 technical round for 1 hr followed by 5 hr interview with 4 people which has technical and behavioral rounds. After answering well they offered me application engineer instead of principal application engineer. Also they are trying to underpay. Very bad experience!!

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Some logical questions, architectural and technical questions and behavioral
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      1