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      Principal Data Engineer Interview

      Oct 2, 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Toronto, ON
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Xero (Toronto, ON) in Sep 2020

      Interview

      Phone screen. A phone call with potential colleague. A 1hr 30min technical assessment on hacker rank. Final call with manager and director. The hacker rank technical assessment was very wordy for a technical exercise. Subjective questions like "how to scale a system" are best left to in person interactions as there are an infinite number of responses. If it were an essay writing exam it probably should be assessed as one, but it is assessed as a technical test. The assessment of the test is therefore very opinionated and ideological.

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      Question 1

      A 1hr 30min technical assessment on hacker rank
      1 Answer