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1. 11 Oct 2023

   Senior Software Engineer Interview

   Anonymous Employee in Ireland

   Accepted Offer

   Positive Experience

   Average Interview

   Application

   I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Unite (Ireland) in Sept 2023

   Interview

   The process started with a recruiter contact roughly a week after I uploaded my CV on their site, asking me to book a time slot for the first round. On the first round, I had a really friendly conversation with a recruiter, describing the company, the position and my prior experiences. After that, I was told I'd get contacted regarding the second round with a lead (they referred to it as "Chapter Lead"). At this point, it was also noted that in case I'm not considered for the position after any interview rounds, I'd get a notification right away with a proper reasoning why (so if I were to fail the technical round, I'd know what were the issues there so I can learn from it). The second round, much like the first one, started with me booking a slot. It took about a day to get the notification about it, but there were no time slots available due to a larger team building event they held at the time (so even though it took approx. 1.5 weeks for me to get to this point, it could have been done in 2-3 days under normal circumstances). During this round, we discussed some technical details about the position and was asked to give a little technical intro about myself, what I did, what I'm proud of, etc. At the end of the session, I was told that I align really well into what they are looking for, so I was told immediately that I will proceed to round 3 and 4 and was asked about my availability for round 3, which ended up being sent to me 3 days later, on a Friday. Round 3 is an assignment. I was given a bare bones Spring project and was asked to implement a certain feature. The assignment itself wasn't difficult, but it definitely wasn't something you usually develop either (it was a modified version of an existing algorithmic problem you usually find in University courses). After my submission, I waited for 3 business days to get my results as 'Passed' and got a call from a recruiter to have a 2.5 hour call: 30 minutes with recruiting/HR (but in my case it was just recruiting again), and 2 hours with my 'soon-to-be-team'. Lot of conversations about past experiences and architectural knowledge, bit of debating, bit of live coding (it was like "change the return type of this into an Optional" kind of affair). Overall the atmosphere was very friendly. Later that day, I got the offer, which I accepted. (All in all, the entire process took roughly a month)
   

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