Form3 Senior Software Engineer interview questions

Great first interview with talent associate, with a good two way flow of information and checking basic fit and eligibility. Can't fault this stage. Disappointing second stage technical test. Engineers happy to set a time consuming exercise, then quickly reject over a trivial bug. Candidates should expect to have it reviewed like you're being paid to write it for users, with exhaustive unit tests, not like you're squeezing it into your free time alongside another job and trying to demonstrate general aptitude. This tells me enough about the engineering culture to want to avoid any future job openings here.

It is a 2 step process. Pretty much similar to the experiences already here. The first step is a take home coding exercise with no time limit. It was about building a client to one of their APIs. Once you have a good feedback on Step 1, then the Step 2 is three 30 minute interviews with their engineers. The first was about giving you the feedback on the coding exercise and also explaining a bit more about what Form3 does and setting up the stage for the rest of the interviews. The second interview had questions ranging from HTTP/REST API design, protocols, user authentication etc. Then we had a little chat about remote working and how they manage being 100% remote. The third interview was the most exciting one. I was asked to troubleshoot a production issue by asking different questions and deriving insights from that. Then it delved into some questions around CI/CD and some informal chat about how software development/tech decision making works inside Form3. I honestly don't understand why people are complaining about this interview process. It was the most stress-free no nonsense process I have ever seen. I was asked questions about stuff that I will actually work on. Not some obscure data structure reversal problem. Yes, the initial coding challenge takes longer - but I will take that anyday over doing a live coding challenge, with a timer running, to reverse a binary tree in an online IDE. This process actually helps me to showcase the skills that I will actually use in my day to day job. Great job folks at Form3!