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Initial 2 screening round: 1. 2 hr pair programming round - Monty Hall problem 2. Manager round to understand expectations, why Clari, interesting projects, etc. - 30 mins Full loop - consisting of 5 rounds: 1. Manager round 1: tell me about an interesting project that you haven't told; manager in a prior interview. Again why Clari? Some behavioral questions. 2. Manager round 3: tell me about an interesting project that you haven't told the manager in a prior interview (so we don't conflict in debriefing). Some behavioral questions. 3. A leet code medium coding on coderpad 4. System Resiliency design - again talking about prior project ( i am tired rescue me now) 5. Design - design priority queue, an ETL system to query data from customer system to Clari system 6. Director round - again behavioral, why Clari? interesting project?
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Clari

3.4★
Jul 21, 2021

Initial 2 screening round: 1. 2 hr pair programming round - Monty Hall problem 2. Manager round to understand expectations, why Clari, interesting projects, etc. - 30 mins Full loop - consisting of 5 rounds: 1. Manager round 1: tell me about an interesting project that you haven't told; manager in a prior interview. Again why Clari? Some behavioral questions. 2. Manager round 3: tell me about an interesting project that you haven't told the manager in a prior interview (so we don't conflict in debriefing). Some behavioral questions. 3. A leet code medium coding on coderpad 4. System Resiliency design - again talking about prior project ( i am tired rescue me now) 5. Design - design priority queue, an ETL system to query data from customer system to Clari system 6. Director round - again behavioral, why Clari? interesting project?

Who wrote this book about TDD? (lol) What's the difference between a Principal and Sr Engineer? Other completely open ended questions about how would you secure these 2 systems, when tried to gather more information about the question, devs responded we are the ones interviewing with you, only we ask questions.
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Principal Security Engineer

Interviewed at Resmed

4★
Nov 3, 2016

Who wrote this book about TDD? (lol) What's the difference between a Principal and Sr Engineer? Other completely open ended questions about how would you secure these 2 systems, when tried to gather more information about the question, devs responded we are the ones interviewing with you, only we ask questions.

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