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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      23 Nov 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Cape Town
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Mama Money (Cape Town) in Nov 2021

      Interview

      The job was posted on ZA Tech Slack. 1. Quick chat with the hiring manager. 2. Coding challenge with vague requirements. If you have never developed a USSD application, you will struggle to understand the vague requirements. The coding challenge is building a USSD application. Since USSD is stateless, you have to store the state in a DB or in memory. This is what trips most people. 3. Discussion of the submitted solution with 2 of their engineers. 4. Cultural fit interview with 2 of their business people. After the 4th interview, I got an email stating that they were no longer hiring for the role. I found that quite odd. When I checked later on Linkedin, they had a new hire and they kept posting the vacancy. I felt they had wasted my time. They should have given me better feedback that I could use to improve myself since I had spent so much time interviewing with them.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. How to create a USSD framework that creates a USSD application from a database config. 2. How can you change your solution to round off figures displayed on the USSD menu?
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