Condé Nast Senior Software Engineer interview questions

To be honest, it was a naive level of interview process. I just had my first round of the interview done and it was damn disaster when I heard the feedback from HR. My profile had a strong understanding on the skillset I own - Core Java and related frameworks. There was nothing to beat around the bush. The interview process at the end gave such a confidence that I'm through. First of all, I'm from core java background with versatile framework experience. I think HR has to be blamed for dragging the candidates when the organisation doesn't look for the versatile candidates instead the skill set specific folks - like one from work experience in Spring, Big Data...etc. Ok... I had my first round. The interviewer was damn restless in putting forth questions, of course all his queries were a piece of cake you can answer fluently, except for one or two which I fumbled, for eg.: Design Principles in my current project - I dint answer though. For other queries i answered with high throughput and probably I would say interviewer dint counter on my answers much. Fine, the only skillset he was looking but i dint own was SPRING, may be that was the primary. It was very clear in my resume itself that I had no spring experience. But apart from it, I answered as many I could from the areas I have worked in precise. The interviewer lacked communications aspects, that may be the reason why he was quite uncertain in understanding the way I explained. I accept communication doesn't matter when you are technically savvy, but it really matters when you want to understand what a person says on the other end. Also, I personally feel that any technical person, if they are good with core skills can do as much as they can in terms of grasping the framework. So, kindly try accessing the core concepts of the individual, rather gazing through cutting edge technologies - Because every cutting edge technology will have certain concepts either unknown to the interviewer as well to the interviewee. One more simple food for thought to the HR, Don't waste time of a candidate if you feel he doesn't posses the exact skillset that your company looks for, because the company's employee is rigid in hiring conservatively - So be the same!

Each step was with different people, I spoke with a range of members of engineering, this was nice and everyone was friendly. The interviews weren't too long, and the code test was reasonable. There was a phone screen, then at home tech test. The tech test was reviewed as part of the final face to face interview. An offer came about a week later.