Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un'agenzia di reclutamento personale. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Vectra AI (Dublino, Dublino) nel mese di dic 2023
Colloquio
A couple of informal chats followed by an easy coding puzzle, then a rather large system design assignment where they were frankly asking for way too much. The process felt quite heavyweight, like they were terrified of hiring an imposter.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Design a system for ingesting 100 million logs per day from various cloud providers, running "queries" against the logs and sending results to B2B customers' on prem monitoring systems (plus quite a few other requirements).
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto una settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Vectra AI nel mese di giu 2024
Colloquio
The first was a short standard 30 minute interview with HR, The second was a 60 minute coding interview in Python. Prior to the interview, I learned the interviewer has written 3-4 books on the subject. The interviewers were a bit dispassionate and got straight to coding. That's all it was - no questions about myself or my 28 years of experience, and no opportunity to learn more about the position. These types of interviews are OK for a minimal bar, but when it is the ONLY bar, then I think it says a lot about the company. I suspect they may get a lot of great Python programmers but everything else that matters is a lottery.
Domande di colloquio [3]
Domanda 1
The first coding exercise was to make sense of code that was deliberately obfuscated with single-letter functions and arguments. Basically, learn everything about it.
