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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      Dec 16, 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Irvine, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at iHerb (Irvine, CA) in Dec 2020

      Interview

      Spanning two interview appointments, I endured 4 hours of unidirectional, intense technical questioning in 4 separate one-on-one sessions with male engineers who seemed to obtain their questions from Google searches rather than knowing or having experience with the relevant patterns, practices, and technologies. When I briefly asked counter-questions such as “How are you utilizing this (design or architectural) pattern?” or “What is your definition of or experience with or opinion on (design, architecture, technology, practice)”, they couldn’t elaborate, define it accurately, or explain how it might be leveraged.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Tech Topics: Microservice Architecture, Domain-Driven Design, Event-driven architecture, CQRS, Cloud services, Containerization, C# language (in-depth), Maintainable code, API design, RESTful services, CQS, Design Patterns, SOLID principles, Information hiding, Test-Driven Development, Unit testing, CI/CD, Specific services such as service bus, Redis, RabbitMQ, virtual machines, switches. DevOps. Azure/AWS. Database design, performance, versioning, and schema updates. iHerb current and future architecture. Dev/Collaboration Topics: Software Development Lifecycle: Analysis-Design-Implementation-Deployment, Code reviews, Scrum/Agile Practices, My strong points, My weak points. How I handle conflict or under-performing workmates. Do I enjoy mentoring and teaching? What are my objectives in applying for iHerb? Given a theoretical set of requirements, how would I translate those into an architectural design? How would I name methods and organize namespaces?
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