quastions about myself, and about the projects i did, then qusation about singeltone, and then they gave me a code of their own and ask some quastions about it. after that they gave me a home work.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Pontera (Herzliya) in Feb 2025
Interview
I had an on-site interview at Pontera for a backend position. The process was well-organized and consisted of two parts: personal and technical.
The personal part included a short self-introduction and general questions about my background, studies, and motivation.
The technical part included:
- A short presentation of a personal project
- Some basic Java questions
- One LeetCode-style algorithm question
- A multi-threaded code snippet involving synchronization issues, where I was asked to identify potential problems
I solved the first algorithm question relatively quickly. The synchronization question took me longer to figure out, but I eventually reached the correct conclusion. However, I was told I wasn’t moved forward in the process due to the time it took me to reach the solution.
Overall, the experience was professional, and the interviewers were respectful and gave helpful hints when appropriate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string representing directions (e.g., 'N', 'S', 'E', 'W'), simulate walking on a 2D grid starting from (0,0).
Return true if the path crosses itself — i.e., you visit any point more than once — otherwise return false
I went to their office and had an interview with the team leader which was very nice and asked about a project i made and then asked me coding question
