Started with an initial call and then had 1 technical stage which was a code review exercise, and 1 cultural interview. Wasn't very difficult, asked simple questions about your experience. But also didn't provide much feedback afterwards either
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Santander (Dallas, TX) in Feb 2021
Interview
First round of interview was just to understand my profile. Second level interview was a white board. I was not told that. I was asked to turn the camera on. They gave a link to draw.io and asked me to draw a bunch on
UML. The interviewer was in a very bad mood from the beginning. She told me i didn't answer her question. Her question was too vague. She did not give me any scenarios. She was rude.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Tell me about yourself.
2) whiteboard scenario. What was something difficult you had to work on and how did you solve.
3) draw.io drawing bunch of UML and use case scenarios.
I had an initial screening call, then a second call with 2 members from the dev team. I was given a simulated PR to work through. Far more relevant than most tech tests as far as they go.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The difference between hooks and regular functions?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Santander
Interview
I interviewed for a role with Santander Auto Solutions, which is mostly separate from the rest of Santander.
The interview process consists of 3 stages:
- Screening: a short chat with a person from recruiting, talking about the role, requirements and asking about your experience and interests. It's really just a chat so didn't need to prepare much for this.
- Technical interview: starts with a simple coding task in Java that's completed on a shared IDE. It's followed by a bit of discussion around the implementation, potential optimisations and time complexity. This is then followed by some fairly basic questions around Java, databases and Kafka.
- Past project: I had to talk about a project I worked on in the past that showed decent breadth and depth of experience. The one downside here is that they wanted me to do it without any visual support (like a presentation, architecture design or whiteboard), so they struggled to understand and I had to strip back the complexity to the basics and by the time they understood some of it the time was up and they were left with the impression that there wasn't much there. This ended up being reflected in the final offer they made which was disappointing.
Overall it was a good experience and the recruiter was super friendly and helpful throughout the process.
Interview questions [8]
Question 1
Given a list of numbers, find the duplicates and print them sorted (e.g. 5 1 4 4 2 2 3 4 5 6 => 2, 4).