Nice conversation with recruiter. However, if they wanted so badly someone experienced in a particular language, they could have told me that from the beginning and save me the time spent on a coding exercise and preparing for other interviews.
I was particularly shocked with one of the questions from the co-CTO.
Disregard any response to this post. I've seen their responses to other interviews, as well as negative reviews in their app. They "take their loses and move on"
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Uphold in Jul 2025
Interview
Hiring process extremely long and I received a generic response at the end of the process without any feedback whatsoever. The take-home assignment took them exactly 1 month and 15 days to review. After passing that assignment, I had a single technical interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you would create a new service [in the context of micro-services], what would you use for monitoring it?
The interview process starts by a screen with an HR person, really nice experience in my case. Then it had a take home assessment.
The curious part of the process was a chat with both CTOs of the company. One of them a very nice guy, the other one seemed to have either a really bad day or a huge lack of empathy and communications skills which made the interview quite uncomfortable. Nothing new for a technical manager in tech, but his arrogance made the experience for this particular interview quite poor.