I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at MongoDB in Oct 2021
Interview
The whole interview process was relatively fast and exceeded my expectations. Everyone was friendly, professional and knowledgeable in their area. Interviews were with actual team members so it was great to have an idea of the culture. No feelings of pressure or stress compared to some other well-known companies.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
String parsing + aggregation; Array fill and processing; Linux OS questions - common; Distributed System design - unique question.
I got a call from HR and followed by Technical Interview by two engineers , one of them was just auditing. They wanted someone who has linux experience with coding. I wrote the code they asked and answer questions like how curl works etc. The guy who interviewed was not a linux person and spent too much time, like 15 min asking about `ls -l *`. I have 20 years of experience managing linux infra and that is what they want to scrutinize in. It kind of ended okay, but clearly the person who interviewed is not prepared as he had no other questions to ask and went back to `ls` every time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
how `ls `works
what is curl
parse some log and count ip etc.
