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      Senior Associate Applications Engineer Interview

      18 Dec 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Chicago, IL

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      Senior Associate Applications Engineer Interview

      23 Sept 2024
      Anonymous employee
      Chicago, IL
      Accepted offer
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Discover (Chicago, IL) in Nov 2022

      Interview

      Contacted by recruiter who set up 3 interviews. 1st was technical, 2nd/3rd were “behavioral” (technical). No coding in any interview except one question in the last that was impromptu. Overall questions: All the interviews asked the same questions pretty much… - Describe tech stack you’re working on/why those technologies - Object Oriented questions - Software Architecture/Design questions - Code testing questions (like functional testing, unit testing) Overall experience: Very Bad 1st Interview: Interviewer was late, disinterested from the very beginning, rushed interview, was unsatisfied with every answer and I was “corrected” every time. Mind you, the questions were open like “In your own words describe Object Oriented programming”. So I’d answer literally describing the concepts and principles of Object Orientation and how they are used IRL then they’d go “Well no it’s [xyz] but let’s move on” . 2nd Interview: Late again, very late. Rushed. Finished early. Interviewer was actually nice. But just kept apologizing for being late. Barely asked questions. 3rd: Same story as 1st interview but worse. They were not paying attention, working/chatting someone on teams (which I could hear clearly). I am not kidding when I said every time I opened my mouth they scoffed and rolled their eyes. Then did their little “corrections” with a hint of scolding. Example: “Why did you decide to convert from React vs Angular?” “(Clarifying) The team was converting when I was brought on, (explanation) although the reason was [xyz] because [xyz] (FR: talked about how the increased interactivity of our SaaS was slowing down our application because of the two way data binding, and with increased routes, debugging scopes was becoming very inefficient.) “(Verbatim) That doesn’t seem right and has nothing to do with this. I don’t like engineers who don’t want to understand and just work” I don’t think I’ve ever had a interviewer be that rude to me before. To end the interview with about 10 mins left they spent a couple minutes to throw a little impromptu function in the chat to write a unit test to because they didn't believe I knew how I guess. The perfect ending to my final “behavioral” interview. Takeaway: Prepare as if every interview will be technical and consider ending the call when people are rude to your face. Not worth your time and you deserve better.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      No coding. Object Oriented Principles React vs. Angular JavaScript Basics Software Design - “Describe a software design pattern you like” Functional/Unit Testing
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      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Discover (Chicago, IL)

      Interview

      1 recruiter call, 1 online assessment, 3 hour of panel interview. 3 coding question (medium level), some system design and project related question (java, springboot, and database). Followed by last HR round and extended offer.

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      Question 1

      a time when you lead the project? its design etc.
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      Senior Associate Application Engineer Interview

      27 Feb 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Discover in Feb 2024

      Interview

      It was 6 round interview along with technical screening and Recruiter call. The first round was terrible as the interviewer did not bother to introduce himself. later three round went well but everyone had joined the call late

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      React, Springboot, designing , behavioral questions
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      Senior Associate Applications Engineer Interview

      13 Nov 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Discover

      Interview

      Following an initial call with HR to discuss my experience, there will be a technical conversation with developers focusing on technology and frameworks. Successful candidates will then proceed to four rounds of interviews with project managers, mostly behavioral questions. The final step involves a whiteboarding session

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      Question 1

      What project are you most proud of?
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