Questions d'entretiens - Senior software engineer

Boring embellished answer

Toutes questions peut potentiellement être compliqué si le candidat n'est pas prêt.

Detailed the concepts in the depth

I've answered that hiring should be based on merit and competence. This was apparently a wrong answer. Quote from the feedback I've received: "Doesn't care about diversity, no finesse on this at all."

I've answered that this is a common practice all across the industry, so GoCater is probably not unique in this regard. This was a wrong answer as well. As I found out afterwards,

The answer they want to hear from you is to divide the aircraft volume for the volume of a cube of a side equal to the diameter of the sphere, then choose randomly a constant to approximate the result.

I was supposed to provide 100% valid Scala code using mechanical pencil and few paper sheets. I tried to tackle it in more idiomatic way, using discriminated unions and chaining initialization (Node(1,Node(2, Tail))), but my interlocutors were not happy about that and requested me to provide more Javaish implementation in LinkedList(1, 2, 3) mode. During the exercise I was constantly interrupted in BEEP mode by the guy who played a role of compiler. Conclusion: Rubbish and time wasting...