Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto una settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Qdrant Solutions (Amsterdam) nel mese di set 2025
Colloquio
The interview process was not long, a call with the recruiter followed by an interview with the hiring manager, and a take-home challenge,
The process was seamless, but scheduling was somewhat unclear.
The interview with the hiring manager was good,
I took the home challenge and went to the next step, an interview with two engineering managers, which I didn't enjoy.
One of the managers constantly interrupted me while I was talking and always gave me comments like, 'This is not enough,' or 'This thing is missing,' etc.
I haven't heard back from them after the challenge interview.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
The challenge was about designing a DBaaS offering for Qdrant.
I got the challenge description in 2/3 phrases in an email,
with emphasis to not work on that for more than 3/4 hours, and this:
`You do not need to focus on all problem areas; solving 1-2 very well and having a rough idea for the rest is absolutely fine!`
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Qdrant Solutions nel mese di apr 2024
Colloquio
I was screened by the VP of Engineering and then sent an architecture challenge that asked me to design a dbaas with scalable instances of the Qdrant engine. I spent about 2-3 hours thinking of solutions and drawing out diagrams, then had a video call with one of their Senior Engineers to discuss my approach. It was a fun conversation and seemed to go well. I had my interview at 7am on a Tuesday (time zones) and they said they'd get back to me by the end of the week. Two weeks later, I had to directly email that engineer to ask for an update. They'd gone with someone who was a better fit and failed to update me. Very unprofessional.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
The cloud / dbaas we are building for our Qdrant Neural Search engine. Focusing on the API / Console part is perfectly fine as well.
