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      Software Developer/Architect Interview

      17 May 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Berlin
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at SumUp (Berlin) in May 2019

      Interview

      Call with HR. HR asked a general question that assumes describing all 10 years of my experience. I answered on a high level in general, understanding that it's impossible to dive deeper in all details during one call. HR then asked what I do in my current work. I answered. HR asked again the same question immediately. I replied that I've just answered it. He said that he just wants to understand what I do. I said again that I've answered this question, if you have another question please feel free to ask it. Then he asked if I worked with Microservices. I said yes. He asked when I worked on migration from monolith to microservices in my current job. I said I've several times repeated what I do in my current job, I didn't do migration in it. Then he asked if I have an experience working with Microservices. I said yes again. Then he asked to point when I worked with them. I clarified what he means by working with them knowing that the person has no understanding of technical field. He replied that working with Microservices means "migrating of a monolith to microservices" :-D I explained that this is just one example of work and shared my related experience. He didn't understand a word. He told me tons of sentences for 2 minutes and then asked "Do you have an experience with this?" I asked "With what? You mentioned tons of things. What do you ask for concretely?". At the same time commented some concrete points I heard from that 2 minutes talk but he didn't understand a word. He asked what I'm searching in a new company. Knowing that I said this in details 5 minutes ago I decided to stop this interview. HR has low cognitive abilities. He doesn't listen to answers to his own questions replying "cool" always. He believes asking the same question and ignoring the answer leads to health and effective discussion. However I'm pretty sure he doesn't know what effective discussion is. 7 minutes of interview was more than enough to expose the quality of interviewing this company provides. Such interviews is a facade for the company. It tells what level of people is hired to it.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      general HR stuff
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      SumUp response
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      Hi, we’re sorry to hear that you've had this experience. We will contact you via email to follow up on your feedback.