Two Interviews. One technical. One with CTO. Technical interview was focused on tech stack rather than problem solving. The CTO interview was partially technical but ot was mostly about general topics and negotiation about the package.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Python related questions. SQL query writing and general OS concepts.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at tkxel in Apr 2023
Interview
It has 3 steps:
1. HR intro call
2. Technical interview with a developer
3. Final interview with CTO
Even you clear all these stages, you get a final call with HR which is an offer meeting.
Weird stuff: They have 3 months of notice period if somebody leaves within a year.
Weird stuff 2: Your notice period is reduced to 2 months if you leave after one year.
Weird stuff 3: They DONT send you an offer letter until you join the organization. You have to go to their office and sign it and give it back to the HR. You'll receive a copy of your offer letter on the first day of joining.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at tkxel (Lahore) in Mar 2023
Interview
HR interview: Smooth process, mostly talks about your past experience. Technical Interview: Smooth process, a principal software engineer will take interview and ask general OOP, DB, Laravel questions and then you have to attend one problem solving Q and one mysql Q which were too easy. Management Interview: Poor process and unprofessional, I am amazed the management doesn't know how to interview candidates considering his experience. I was not given the time to introduce myself, not to tell about what kind of projects I worked on. Instead the interviewer started asking Qs in a hurry and some of the questions he asked were easy but since I read those things in my college days I don't remember but I can easily check them from internet and answer in 5 seconds. It was a typical What is this? What is that Qs interview which won't show that the candidate is a good fit or not. The interview was over in just 10 minutes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Problem Solving Q : Compare two strings and find its anagram or not. MySQL Q: Write a query to find second minimum salary of candidate. Management Questions 1: What is a static variable. Diff between static and normal variable. 2: What is normalization and de normalization? 3: What is a default port of apache server? 4: What is threading and multi threading? Is PHP single or multi threaded? Is JavaScript single or multi threaded? How multithreading works in a system? Explain this code and what it will output? var i = true; setTimeout(function(){ i = false }, 2000); while(i){ console.log(i); }