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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 15, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Aiven in Dec 2024

      Interview

      Very heavy and bureaucratic interview process. These are the interviews that must be done: recruiter screen, depth of expertise, skills Interview / assignment, values Interview, reference checks. The Interviewers were friendly and polite. Assignment is a Python websites monitor that stores the metrics into a PostgreSQL database. I felt the review was unfair, because new requirements were added to the project in the review phase, after the initial specs. I would recommend to avoid this company if you can and not waste your time on assignments.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      What programming languages do you know?
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Tell us about your experience?
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      3
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      Aiven response
      1y
      Thank you for taking the time to interview at Aiven and for providing feedback on our interview process. We understand your concern about the process feeling bureaucratic. Our goal is to maintain transparency and consistency for all candidates. The standard process includes 3 key stages, after an introductory call with a Talent Partner and concluding with a simple reference process. We also appreciate your feedback on the assignment. We are continually working to improve our interview process and ensure that it is fair and efficient for all candidates. We value your time and will ensure your review is used to help us consider future iterations. We wish you all the best in your job search. Ed Director, Talent & People Experience

      Other Senior Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Aiven

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Dec 11, 2025
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Aiven

      Interview

      The interview process took about a month altogether with all the stages and it was quite a nice process. The test assignment was interesting, though I should say that doing it properly does take quite some time. The interviewers were all interesting people to talk to and the recruiter was good at returning promptly all my questions

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How does TLS work and what is the certificate structure
      Answer question

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Nov 20, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Aiven

      Interview

      1. Interview with recruiter 2. Interview with Product Owner 3. Gigantic homework assignment that basically wanted you to make a commercially viable product for free, and within a set timespan. 4. ???

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How much experience do you have with *specific tech stack*?
      Answer question
      2

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 23, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Helsinki, Southern Finland
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Aiven (Helsinki, Southern Finland) in Jun 2025

      Interview

      I applied online via their career website. Then, I was contacted by their recruiter it followed by a 30-minute meeting, discussing my experience and explaining the role. After this, I received a feedback email that they want to move forward, and the next step was an hour-long meeting with the hiring manager. Asking questions about my experience with more detail, technologies that I've worked with and so on. After this stage, I received an email containing a take-home assignment. They give a week to submit the solution. It's a website monitoring service that must be production-ready. It took around 30 hours to be completed. After submitting, they came back to me after a week, that they are gonna move forward with my application. Following with a 90-minute technical interview. The technical interview started with me explaining my decisions that I made in the take-home assignment, then it followed by asking questions about how it can be scaled. The second part of the interview focused on system design and K8S questions, such as what's the difference between ReplicaSet and StatefulSet, explain the K8S architecture, what to put behind HealthProbe and etc. After several days, I received an email that they won't continue with my application, and gave detailed feedback that was drafted professionally.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. What's the difference between ReplicaSet and StatefulSet? 2. Explain the K8S architecture 3. What to put behind HealthProbe? 4. Explain GoLang Goroutines in depth. What is GMP model in Go?
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      2

      Aiven interviews FAQs

      • Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Aiven with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 51.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Aiven overall takes an average of 24 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Aiven as a Senior Software Engineer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Skills test:  24%

        Phone interview:  18%

        Group panel interview:  18%

        One on one interview:  18%

        Personality test:  12%

        Other:  6%

        Presentation:  6%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Senior Software Engineer(13) ;
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        3. Manager(10) ;
        4. Sales(9) ;
        5. Anonymous(6) ;
        6. Sales Development Representative (SDR)(6) ;
        7. Account Executive(5) ;
        8. Support Engineer(5) ;
        9. GTM(4) ;
        10. Solutions Architect(3) ;
        11. Director(2) ;
        12. Enterprise Account Executive(2) ;
        13. Marketing(2) ;
        14. Product Marketing Manager(2) ;
        15. Recruiter(2) .


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