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      Backend Developer Interview

      22 Jun 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Vancouver, BC
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Alloy (Vancouver, BC) in Jun 2022

      Interview

      Had 2 intros, coding challenge and then system design. The interviewers were very nice. I didn't do the best in the coding challenge although it was quite simple. They decided to proceed and invited me for a system design thing. I was asked to design an analytics data pipeline. Pretty trivial and easy if you have experience designing backend systems. I designed much more complicated things just in the past few months. Anyways, I thought I did well since the guy at the end was quite happy about it and said that I pretty much designed what they currently have, so I was positive. Surprisingly after that, and silence of about a week (?), they said they don't want to continue the process. After asking for feedback, they said that I didn't do well in the coding challenge (So why you even bother continuing) and that in the system design I didn't ask enough questions. Now I did ask a LOT of question before starting the design. More than usual, as the guy that was interviewing me wasn't a native english speaker and it was quite hard understanding the assignment. At the end, after I did in fact ask a lot of questions and did design it very well (I was doing tons of those interviews, I tend to believe I did well) apparently that wasn't enough :( Too bad, they did leave a good impression, I just think that whether I got another interviewer for the system design I would probably get an offer

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      The coding challenge was in one of those shared online coding platforms. You have data in a very weird format inside a hash table and you need to return it in a form of a JSON that resembles somewhat a tree (Every node can have couple of another nodes IIRC). Wasn't that complicated tbh, the coding platform did more issues with JS rather then the exercise being hard
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Design a data pipeline that receives data from many sources and saves it to an analytics database. The data is coming in different structure and from different sources. Could be a webpage, an API, a webhook, etc. Each of those could be XML, could be JSON or whatever and have different structure
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      Alloy response
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      Dear candidate, Thank you for providing feedback on our interview process. I want to take this opportunity to give you more information on the decision process of Alloy. After every interview step, we rate the candidate's performance on several aspects. Sometimes, it's unclear whether we should abort the process or continue. We give candidates the chance to improve on the second interview whenever we have doubts. People have different skills, and we want to give them the chance to show us their other qualities. As a step to improve the process, I'll make sure that we communicate this more clearly when we explain the interview process. Thank you for helping us to get better at interviewing. Best regards, Stefan Antal Director, Product Engineering