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      Backend Engineer Interview

      Dec 20, 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Deel

      Interview

      An initial call with an HR person regarding your professional experience—here, you can expect HR-related questions. No big deal. After that, you will be assigned a technical test consisting of building an API with various endpoints, some of which are broken, and some are missing. You need to be familiar with Sequelize ORM. I could pass this phase by linting and moving the project to an MVC-inspired structure (controller, models, repositories, services, etc.). Very easy, to be honest. The third phase is an interview with a technical person, who in my case was someone who could barely speak English, making it difficult to communicate with him. He also seemed tired, like a person who didn't want to be there. My willingness to join the company started decreasing here, and I was afraid of somehow joining this guy's team and getting bored quickly. He will go through your technical test and start asking questions about how you could improve certain parts of the application. The number of questions depends on how well you structured your project at a given time. I was eliminated because he asked a question about concurrency, which I thought I had already addressed, so it wasn't going through my head at the moment. (I should have answered by locking the tables to prevent two requests dealing with the table at the same time.) I have basic knowledge about SQLite, and I thought the lock operation would happen automatically when starting a transaction. My conclusion is that the challenge in the third phase is to guess what your interviewer is trying to talk about. However, if you keep asking questions for clarification, he can understand as if you don't know the answer. Don't blame yourself if you were not able to pass. I have 10+ years of experience and couldn't pass. Sometimes it's just luck and having a good interviewer.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Why do want to work at Deel?
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      Question 2

      As the project grows up, what changes would you make to not become a mess?
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      Question 3

      If two requests are done at the same time, how would you address concurrency?
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      Backend Engineer Interview

      Oct 10, 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New Delhi
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Deel (New Delhi)

      Interview

      It took 1 week to get a follow up from recruiter. Initially there was a hr round, in which my current role and experience was discussed. After 2 days I got a rejection. It was due to amount of experience I had.

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      What project have you worked with recently? What tech stack have you primarily worked with
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      Backend Engineer Interview

      Sep 3, 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Deel in Sep 2025

      Interview

      The interview itself was smooth, and the recruiter was professional and pleasant to speak with. I left the conversation with a very positive impression of the team and the role. However, after a positive first round, I was rejected with the explanation that the company “only hires Swiss citizens due to very strict legal laws.” This is misleading: as an EU citizen (Italian) already residing in Switzerland, I have the legal right to live and work here under the Free Movement of Persons agreement. In reality, it appears that the limitation was an internal policy rather than a legal requirement. This was disappointing, as the rejection had nothing to do with skills or eligibility, but with an unnecessarily restrictive and inaccurately justified company rule. Future candidates should be aware that even if you’re fully entitled to work in Switzerland, you may be excluded for reasons unrelated to your qualifications.

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      Backend Engineer Interview

      Jun 24, 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
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      Application

      I interviewed at Deel

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