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      Senior Software Engineer, Senior Data Engineer Interview

      Sep 26, 2023
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Demandbase (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2023

      Interview

      Their recruiter reached out on linkedin. I applied and heard back from them a week later. It sounds like they have a lot of applications. Zoom interviews with the team took about 2 weeks, several rescheduling requests were sent. It took them another 2 weeks to make a decision. I really wish I had som indication of how I was doing. The recruiter did check in and clearly buying time for other interviews. I felt like a backup but I had high hopes. I guess in the end I was a backup or just didn't meet their needs. It was really disappointing to get rejected as I check all the boxes on their job description. I was also very nervous but who isn't? The rejection email was not great - saying that they picked someone with more domain experience. Then why did you reach out to me knowing I don't have domain experience? That was irritating. This was a tough call between a positive experience and neutral. I don't think they should have reached out to me knowing that I don't have domain experience? Why waste my time and emotions. All in all they were nice and professional, and I would have accepted their offer, so that means it was more positive.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      This was a Scala position but they were open to allowing me to use Python or Java for the interview. Standard data eng questions - SQL, Spark, ETL, and some not so standard like API and microservices. I have not been actively interviewing, some of these questions were hard as I was very rusty.
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