Alma Software Engineer interview questions

Contacted by a recruiter in late February and set up a phone screen where basic background and behavioral questions were asked. Then scheduled a first round of interviews with engineers and director of talent. I was asked some basic coding questions and system design for a simple backend. Be sure to come prepared with examples for the behavioral questions regarding Alma’s core values listed in their slides. Then a final round of interview with the hiring manager and product managers/designers to have a technical deep dive into your best projects and experience working with cross-functional teams. Overall the process is smooth, transparent and sympathetic and the recruiter did an awesome job of following up and providing updates. Alma places a lot of emphasis on the equity of judging every candidate by the same criteria, thus giving the best candidate and interviewing experience. They also try to set up the candidates not only for success in the interviews but also when working for the company if selected.

While long, the interview process was very accommodating and expectations were set from the start (they sent me a PDF outlining the whole process). I applied in Jan and received an offer in Mar. Questions asked in each of the interviews were fair and the people I met answered my questions candidly.