I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Discover in Sep 2023
Interview
The process is quite easy, the first round starts with the HR call then after matching the skills and requirements your application gets forwarded for another screening round where a technical manager shows up and asks you questions related to Java, Spring Boot, AWS, & Kafka. Also few questions related to projects were asked. After passing this round you schedule for three different interviews with all senior devs. Two rounds are based on the behavioral and few but easy technical questions. Most of the questions are based on your resume. The last interview was a coding round, for me, it was fully system design. I was unprepared for this round so I could not go through it. Overall it was a nice experience, the interviewers were really nice and helped a lot through the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HR Q. What tech stacks do you use/relocation/compensation/sponsorship .. etc/ Dev Round Q. Questions related to OOP/SpringBoot/Database/AWS Dev Round 2. Q. Fully behavioral/ what were the challenging projects etc.. and some tech-related questions revolving around Java & Spring Boot. Dev Round 3. Q. Same as 2 Final Coding Round. I was asked to design a cloud system that is highly scalable, fault-tolerant, resilient & secure.
5 rounds of interview. First round 30 mins technical. Then next four rounds of 1 hour each (again technical). One was behavioral and last one was white board session. One round was with hiring manager and other were with team leads.
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Question 1
REST API, Springboot, Behavioural round, other technical questions on Java
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Discover in Feb 2024
Interview
Went through back to back 6 interviews which had same/similar very basic and naïve questions. This showed maturity of that organization. I would always stay away from an organization where majority of people are non-technical and expect the developer to deliver everything!!!
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Discover (Riverwoods, IL) in Sep 2023
Interview
Met with their top "architect". Using quotes here because IMO someone who has been with the company 20+ years with good knowledge about the company but outdated/stale skills in the area of modern software engineer was probably promoted to that position for other reasons. They asked me questions that were hot about 15 years ago. I did not get an offer but would think twice before accepting it as I got a pretty vivid picture of my future there.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the difference between monolith and microservices based systems. Advantages using microservices. Interviewer seemed more interested in finding holes in your Resume than assessing your skills. They clearly hadn't prepared for the interview and were going over my Resume during the process.
