Cloudbeds interview questions

The process is very unorganized. They don't seem to know the steps. One of the interviewers basically knows nothing about the technologies. One example is that the person thinks there are only three availability zone of any aws region, things like this are all over the places. The person just pretended that he knows the technologies. The person thinks writing a microservices stream app including processing/cleansing data, setting up Confluent servers, Cassandra servers, Cassandra schema design and can work end to end plus unit tests completion will only take 6-8 hours. I just felt the person has so less knowledge about the technologies and lack of experiences on actual software development. I really don't know what their selection process or they even have knowledge to choose their candidates. Good luck you are to interview with this position. Don't spend too much time I don't think they read your solutions and I have the feeling they don't have capacity to understand your work.

I applied through LinkedIn and a few days later received an email with the next step which was to take an English proficiency test. The test is not too hard, all multiple choice, no listening or speaking tested. After that, another email invited me to take a one-way recorded interview. The CB staff asked questions on video, I had 1-3 minutes to plan my answers and then I had to record the answer. Finally, I had a Zoom interview with a staff member. The interviewer was very friendly and answered all of my questions. The last step was being offered the position, I just received an email saying I had 3 days to confirm or it would be assumed that I declined. This was the step that threw me off as it was very impersonal. The contract offered an extremely low salary considering the worker is in charge of paying local taxes, healthcare, and office supplies. I was disappointed to have to decline because the salary did not cover my needs. Two years ago remote working was a unique perk but after the pandemic there are more remote companies paying fair salaries for their workers. I recommend Cloudbeds to review the remuneration for their current and future employees, especially the international ones.