I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Worldplay in Jul 2021
Interview
Interview process is straightforward, after personalist connection, there was a short screening interview with VP and technical interview next with senior dev. They ask questions about past experience and dive into technical examples.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- difference between MySQL and PostgreSQL, stored procedures
- explain inheritance
- describe adapter patter/ singleton
- advantages and disadvantages of ORM
- dependency injection (what it is, pros/cons)
- explain/experience with docker (how do you pass env vars into container),docker-compose yaml
- circuit breaker
- Go questions: array vs slice, stale slices, memory leaks
Solve problem:
You have more requests coming in that is a rate of database cluster write. Propose solutions