Senior Backend Engineer Interview Questions

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- Implement a function to filter data. I liked that it was not a basic leet code problem. - Basic leet code problem string compression/decompression exercise. - System's design problem related to a potential feature used at Affirm. - Standard behavioral interview questions.
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Sr. Software Engineer (Backend)

Interviewed at Affirm

3.9
Jun 6, 2024

- Implement a function to filter data. I liked that it was not a basic leet code problem. - Basic leet code problem string compression/decompression exercise. - System's design problem related to a potential feature used at Affirm. - Standard behavioral interview questions.

Generic question like overall experience and domain knowledge ( which I had). Tech round involved some deep dive on the system design topic like performance, including some not so difficult coding challenge. In the 'Meet the team' round they asked me some more technical questions but it was mostly informal.
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Oviva

4.1
Aug 21, 2023

Generic question like overall experience and domain knowledge ( which I had). Tech round involved some deep dive on the system design topic like performance, including some not so difficult coding challenge. In the 'Meet the team' round they asked me some more technical questions but it was mostly informal.

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