1st user interview was impressively pleasant. We were both being able to understand each other by exchanging questions and answers throughout the interview
In contrast, the second interview was a completely different setting. Although the interviewer did not turn on their webcam, I chose to do so out of respect for the interviewer. I found the interview process challenging due to the difficulty in observing the interviewer’s facial expressions, which made it challenging to adjust my responses accordingly. I believe there was a significant amount of miscommunication during the session, which I assumed was due to the interviewer’s lack of engagement. However, the interviewer mistakenly believed that I lacked the necessary skills for the job description. Ultimately, my previous experience was deemed not important, as the company seemed to emphasize the importance of my latest knowledge of technology stacks and algorithms as a front-end web engineer, at that interview time
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Question 1
Throttle and Bounce, JSON manipulations, API Polling technique
Approached me for an interview, I did not apply for it explicitly. Sent me an invite, not much explanation on the interview. During the interview, the interviewer said "you are so confident, aren't you?" in a patronizing, condescending, cocky tone. During live coding section, interviewer went missing for awhile when I asked questions. No rejection e-mail either, completely ghosted.
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Question 1
How sure are you that you are ready for this role?
bad, disrespectful. interviewer was late and kept asking non related questions. Every question was disconnected and interviewer did not turn on camera. Also speak chinese during the whole interview, mumbling throughout couldn’t understand anything.
The interviewer started the interview by speaking in Mandarin, which was not what i expected as the recruiter spoke to me in English and didn't inform me that the interview would be conducted in Mandarin.
There were quite a few communication problems through the interview as i struggled a little to understand the technical terms in mandarin, since i am not from China and learned computer science in English.
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Question 1
The coding question was ok: merge lists, find out whether a number in listA is smaller than in listB, etc.
However, i was asked some pretty difficult questions later on. Eg, Redis operations (which i obviously couldn't answer due to no experience with redis), ways to prevent double booking, rate limiting in a distributed environment (how to track all the counters)...