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      Computer Scientist Interview

      20 Jan 2020
      Anonymous employee
      Bath, England
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Netcraft (Bath, England)

      Interview

      Asked for a University transcript and an example of academic writing, followed by a code sample implementing a basic web scraper. Afterwards I was invited to an interview in Bath, where they went over my University units, hypothetical questions (e.g. how would you secure <X> web app?), then a brief run through of their tech stack. Questions were open ended, and I was guided through if I didn't quite know the correct answer. Overall the interview lasted 2 hours. I was given an offer very quickly, subject to a Basic Disclosure Check.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      How does HTTPS work, and how does it prevent adversaries from intercepting traffic?
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Perform a basic SQL injection on paper
      Answer question

      Question 3

      How would you store passwords for a web application securely?
      Answer question

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      Computer Scientist Interview

      1 Apr 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Netcraft (London, England) in Mar 2022

      Interview

      Applied online and was emailed back and asked for my university grades, an example code base I'd written, and a report I'd written to assess coding and writing style. There's a very large focus on academic achievement, without considering other skills you may have outside of this. Was then offered an interview over video call, which I was 2 and a half hours long. The entire interview was technical questions, where they asked about email security (SPF, DKIM, etc), how to identify phishing sites, parsing regular expressions, and how you could use machine learning in their work flow. There was no competency based questions about teamwork, leadership, or flexibility, just technical ones. It reflected a poorly on the company to not hire based upon these skills. Was made an offer of a high salary, but the culture of the company felt incredibly awkward and uncomfortable made me decline it.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Can you parse this regular expression?
      Answer question

      Question 2

      How would you group multiple images of the same website?
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Explain how to verify that an email was actually sent by the sender?
      Answer question

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