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Write a URL shortner which doesn't allow more than 100 URLs to be stored. I thought, wait, these guys waited for 14 days, just to ask me this? And overall interviewer kept me in skepticism, and doubtfulness, and later rejected out of nowhere. No proper communication. No communication whatsoever, I answered all his questions, he kept repeating "only 100 urls are allowed" To me he keep telling, ok yes, good, great. Thats ok. And what i am getting the next day? A rejection mail.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Revolut

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Jul 6, 2024

Write a URL shortner which doesn't allow more than 100 URLs to be stored. I thought, wait, these guys waited for 14 days, just to ask me this? And overall interviewer kept me in skepticism, and doubtfulness, and later rejected out of nowhere. No proper communication. No communication whatsoever, I answered all his questions, he kept repeating "only 100 urls are allowed" To me he keep telling, ok yes, good, great. Thats ok. And what i am getting the next day? A rejection mail.

You will be provided code for Account class (Empty) and class with transferMoney operation that you would need to write. The signature of transferMoney is (Account a, Account b, ???? amount) Then so many questions about SQL transactions and Isolation levels and consistency and they will ask you to write SQL in the comments and implement locking using it (both optimistic and pessimistic) Then so many theory questions about Production environment, Stability patterns ( at least 3), Roll back, deployment strategies. SOLID, Monitoring code and others.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Revolut

4
Oct 21, 2024

You will be provided code for Account class (Empty) and class with transferMoney operation that you would need to write. The signature of transferMoney is (Account a, Account b, ???? amount) Then so many questions about SQL transactions and Isolation levels and consistency and they will ask you to write SQL in the comments and implement locking using it (both optimistic and pessimistic) Then so many theory questions about Production environment, Stability patterns ( at least 3), Roll back, deployment strategies. SOLID, Monitoring code and others.

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