I interviewed with genius few months ago. The process was different from what i expected for a software dev role. Instead of old styled interview where you answer some techinal questions and do leetcode styled problems, they wanted to see if i can work end to end like a real full stack developer. For the interview i had to build a actual product. the concept was a remote login app which was basically a system that lets users login to third party websites inside isolated cloud VMs and then securely capture and store their cookies, so they dont have to keep logging in again and again. I had to think the real user problem first which is session management and security then build the whole thing from scratch. Also had to make sure everything auto destroyes after 15 mins so its truly ephemeral. The full project was mine, i kept it in my own github. It took me around 6 days to finish. After i submitted, i got selected because they liked the quality of what i built.
After that i was placed at a really good company. I cant share the details of the work but at a high level I am working for a consumer safety platform that deals with large scale data processing pipelines for federal government data. I have learned a lot of new things here like how to build data pipelines, scraping data, using LLMs to analyse it and turn it into content that is easy for normal people to understand. This whole experience made me a much better software engineer than before. Also sometimes i get to work on next generation stuff like digital avatars and digital twins using tools like HeyGen and Higgsfield. Its really fun and i enjoy how much variety there is in the work and different types of clients that Genius Innovation Lab works with.
