I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Ziing Final Mile
Interview
Terrible interview experience. Started out by talking to an architect which was a good conversation and he seemed like a nice person who was excited about possibly working with me. Then HR decided to make all candidates take a psychometrics test which borderlined on asking illegal questions about religion/family/etc.
Next I was strung along for months before HR finally decide they were going to buy HackerRank and set it up which also took a month. Finally I took the HackerRank test. It asked me about 3 different languages (one that had nothing to do with the original job description). It also asked me to do system design and some coding challenges. Some devops questions as well. After it was over HR was really dismissive about how they couldn't find a unicorn who could build a company from the ground up. Don't waste your time interviewing with them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A video streaming service aims to expand its presence globally. With a vast and growing volume of high-definition videos and the demand for low-latency streaming, the company's IT team seeks to optimize its cloud storage solution. They prioritize rapid content delivery, durability of data, cost-effectiveness, and the capability of analytics and machine learning operations on this data. Which storage configuration best meets these requirements?
Dear Software Engineer. Thank you for your candid and specific feedback. We are disappointed and humbled to hear your view of your interview experience. Our psychometric tool is a well established data and science backed product used by many companies around the World. We have submitted your feedback to them so that they can review their question sets and determine if any changes need to be made. Please understand, the tool is used by all Employers; including Churches and Charities so it is not designed for a Tech focus only. I am assured the question was not specific to a religion but more about a career in religion.
Hacker Rank, however, is directly related to the Tech stack we use and the proprietary platform we are building. We recognize that test was difficult and it is by design by our current Engineers. All in all, these are growing pains of a start-up. We appreciate the feedback and have taken it to heart. We wish you success in your job search. The HR Team at Ziing.
First 15 min coffee chat:
chat with one of the software developers. ask about c# .NET Lifetime of Web API. How would you inject logger in DI with which lifetime etc? Some questions on cosmos db. Had very positive experience, interviewer was super nice and seemed he knew stuff.
Second Round: (2 people)
Interview with the same person with other senior solution architect. Coding challenge.
- Design linkedlist class in c#
- Make it generic,
- Write a method to find the longest palindromic sub-sequence using the above class.
- After that some questions on database, past projects etc. Easy DS question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- DS related question
- Cosmos DB related question like what is RU, what is partition key etc.
- Service bus related, how you manage DLQ etc.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Ziing Final Mile (Toronto, ON) in Oct 2023
Interview
The interview process was pretty quick, first round with the HR, she was very nice and told about the company culture about startup state and spreading the wings in States. Then a group technical round. One week later got the rejection.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
On site(1:30H): Design a link list from ground level with Node clss, then implement a circular link list and do search insertion and deletion. Then write unit test for this. Finally a Generic implementing of this Node class.
Then there are a bunch of theoretical questions, like ACID, some design principle, some behavioural question.