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      Senior Ruby Developer Interview

      11 Apr 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Whitespectre in Mar 2021

      Interview

      Worst experience I have ever had. RUN AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY. 1) HR Interview - So far so good 2) Coding assessment: You are required to build a simple rails app with some simple difficulties on calculating dates and ranges. This is fair and doesn't take more than ~4 hours. 3) Tech lead interview: Here is where things start going down the road. The interviewer is pretty rude, he asks a bunch of questions (some of them actually makes sense). Sometimes it is hard to understand even what he's trying to ask. Some questions feel very weird, like: "Why Rails use so much Inheritance instead of composition?". You get literally 0 feedback from him. 4) CEO Interview: This is also a technical interview. He ask you questions about system design and go over some scalability challenges where you are expected to use JS long polling. When he notices you are not very sure on a response, he pushes there a bit. At the end, they tell you that since you don't know everything (like ACID), they can offer a lower rate to hire you (they still make you an offer) Overall, it feels they are just looking to hire some cheap "yes sir" resources. I have had many interviews and this feels like an old school company that still don't know how to deal with people. It feels they are just looking for a programmer that can pick a ticket and get it done, more than a person to join a team.

      Interview questions [8]

      Question 1

      Explain ACID, levels of isolation
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      Question 2

      What’s the CSRF protection for? Why can’t a hacker just copy the token?
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      Question 3

      Describe HTTP requests in detail. How does the server know how to match each request to the given app if requests don’t include the IP address?
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      Question 4

      Inheritance vs Composition. Why Rails use so much Inheritance?
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      Question 5

      Why having modules if we could use abstract classes and include them?
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      Question 6

      What things you would prioritize if you were leading the language development/maintainence
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      Question 7

      How does rails work behind scenes to match the http request with the right route/controller?
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      Question 8

      What different alternatives do you know for managing different api versions
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      Whitespectre response
      5y
      Update: we note that the feedback above was changed after we gave the following response. I am personally very sorry if anyone has a bad experience in their evaluation process with Whitespectre. Treating people professionally and with respect is something that we hold in high regard - whether or not they end up as team members. It’s worth noting that we have very high standards in our evaluation and only make offers to ~2% of the people who enter our process. I believe in transparency and also understand that it can sometimes be hard to hear our feedback at the end of the process. If we believe that someone has potential, but needs more growth and personal development to reach the level we deem “Senior”, we will give that feedback, and, I believe in your case may discuss the opportunity to join the team at a “Mid” level with a set of steps/goals to reach “Senior”. It sounds like you didn’t appreciate our straightforwardness and were offended. I wish you all the best in finding somewhere you feel comfortable. Nick, CEO.

      Other Senior Ruby Developer interview reviews for Whitespectre

      Senior Ruby Developer Interview

      27 Feb 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Whitespectre in Dec 2017

      Interview

      I did email and skype interview, and did a test, which they declined and provided no feedback even after I asked for it by email. This is a lack of respect for the candidate's time!!

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Asked to do a test
      Answer question
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