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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      6 Jul 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through other source. I interviewed at Cloudsmith in Jun 2026

      Interview

      Really poor process, came across as disorganised and mismanaged. Whole process lasted over a month. 3 screening calls, all to explain my experience to different people who didn’t seem to have spoken to each other, and who couldn’t give me a clear description of what they were looking for. Take home question to build a small parser and api in python, then a call to do a live code review. The take home was fine, but the follow up review interview felt a bit aimless. An AI generated PR was presented with obvious issues, and it felt like a lot of time to go over very little. A system design interview followed, and it was quite bewildering. I felt like AWS CloudFront knowledge was a requirement, and given I’d never used it before I asked questions of the interviewers to understand how it worked so I could design around it. Those questions were met with answers like “it depends”, or technical details that were then contradicted later in the call. Felt like a simple problem if you’ve solved it before (e.g. worked on building edge systems or working with CloudFront directly), but trying to build a system from first principles seemed to be met with confusion.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Cloudsmith is a cloud-native artifact management platform, and audit logging — tracking who accessed what, and when — is a key capability. You'll build a small service that ingests artifact access events, stores them with proper tenant isolation, and exposes a query API. Build a service that includes: 1. Event Ingestion handling imperfections 2. Tenant Isolation 3. Sensible API design supporting filtering by tenant, time range, action type, package name 4. Configurable Retention Policy - events older than a configurable threshold should be cleaned up. Deliverables: Working code with tests for the important behaviour A README covering setup/run instructions, your approach and key decisions, trade-offs or shortcuts, and what you'd do differently with more time
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      Question 2

      Currently clients connect directly to our backend. Describe how you would build a system to enhance our ability to serve customers at the edge through services like AWS CloudFront.
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      Thank you for taking the time to share this feedback. I appreciate the detail and will use it to improve our interview process. We've recently evolved our technical interviews, moving from live coding to a take-home exercise where AI-assisted development is expected, followed by a code review. We've also introduced a system design conversation designed to explore different approaches and trade-offs as constraints change. We feel this approach better represents the real-world working environment. From the timing, it sounds like you experienced some teething problems as we adapted to the new process. The feedback on the system design interview is particularly useful. We want this to be a collaborative technical conversation where candidates can ask questions, test assumptions and reason through a problem. For some roles, specific experience—such as optimising systems at the edge—is important, but we need to be clear when that is something we're looking for. We also expect the overall process to feel joined-up and move at a reasonable pace. A process lasting over a month is longer than we would want. Thank you again for the candid feedback. There are useful lessons for us here as we continue to refine the process, and we wish you all the best in finding your next role. Ronan VP Engineering