Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Materra as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Backend Engineer and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Backend Engineer and roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Materra takes an average of 14 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Backend Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 14 days), whereas Backend Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 14 days).
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Materra (London, England) in Feb 2025
Interview
It was a multi stage recruitment process, which involved me receiving a take home technical task to solve, then afterwards, my design solution was discussed during the interview which was a virtual one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They gave me a scenario based question, asking me how I would design a python based backend that can handle high concurrency issue associated with their website now that it has become super popular (especially when new chapters are released every Sunday at 3PM UTC).