I applied online. I interviewed at MSD (Prague) in Jan 2025
Interview
Asked about my projects and academic knowledge. My motivation to work at the company and future prospects. Asked general questions to check my understanding of certain topics related to the projects I worked on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Finding the number of leaves of a binary tree using recursion and iterative approach.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at MSD (Prague) in Sept 2023
Interview
1st round: HR interview (introduction about company, the team that you are going to work at, basic questions about you whether you are good fit to proceed with).
2nd round: Home Assignment (Technical Task - mine was writing basic python script with web server that User sends requests and receives the responses based on the script).
3rd round: F2F interview at the office (Final interview takes place in office, accompanied by team leader and senior engineers that start with reviewing you home assignment task and ask you questions regarding the task (implementation, approach you used, etc.) and ask you technical questions that are required for the job, mine was mostly related to Python (OOP, inheritance), Linux, Cloud questions).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1st round: HR (just questions about you based on your resume).
2nd round Home Assignment: Task was to write a Python script that reads an input plaintext file and prints out the top 10 most frequently occurring pairs of successive words (words that follow immediately after each other).Create a Dockerfile that encapsulates this script along with any required dependencies. Run the script as a web API that accepts the file in a POST request.
Add another GET endpoint that accepts the name of a wikipedia article and uses that as input.
3rd round: F2F interview (Questions based on Home Assignment and more technical questions regarding Python (OOP, Inheritance, Decorators), Linux (Basic commands and its usages e.g chmod, ps, ln, df), Cloud & DevOps (if you have knowledge mostly related to CI/CD, Jenkins, AWS).
