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      Software Engineer Interview

      7 Nov 2023
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Financial Times in Apr 2020

      Interview

      Initial call and then a further technical call with the head of the department and some other engineers. Got the chance to speak with most members of the team and the questions covered both security and coding practices

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Describe how you would build a basic nodejs app
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      Software Developer Interview

      7 Jun 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Sofia, Sofia (city)
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Financial Times (Sofia, Sofia (city))

      Interview

      One round with questions for about an hour and a half with topics - OOP, Go, Java, DB, Cloud, Web, Design Patterns. One round with architectural questions for about two hours.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      SOLID Principles, OOP Principles, Microservices - Pros and Cons, AWS Services, DB questions - ACID, CAP theorem, Primary Key, Foreign Key, Indexes, Types of Joins, Denormalization, Go and Java specific questions - inheritance, concurrency, locks. Web - RESTful API, REST methods, idempotency, n+1 problem. Design patterns - Singleton, Factory, Builder, Chain of responsibility Second interview - http, dns, cdn, cache, load balancers, cache, reverse proxy.
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      Software Engineer Interview

      22 Sept 2021
      Anonymous employee
      London, England
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Financial Times (London, England) in Jul 2021

      Interview

      Had an initial call with HR recruiter. Did a take home assessment after that. Then a technical interview happens where you first solve a problem and unit test then answer technical questions. Finally a behavioural interview interview takes place.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      questions about security, algorithm complexity, behavioural interview: "tell me a time when" based
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