HelloFresh interview questions

They have 4 steps of interview: 1. HR call 2. Home task or live code 3. Call with staff engineering 4. Call with leadership team HR call was interesting, she asked basic questions about myself, experience and some basic technical questions (Microservices) I chose Home task for 2nd stage. It was to process large json file and aggregate it. It was interesting task. After I sent pull request on Github, an engineer from the company came up with some comments and questions asking why did you do this why did you choose this solution etc. After this step, I got a call from a staff engineer. I thought it went well, but I got a rejection email. He asked questions about the topics that I mentioned on my CV. They are random questions, but not language-specific. Mostly architectural questions. My overall conclusion: It seems like the company engineering team doesn't much care about problem-solving, but they more care about the experience with Microservices and architecture for this role. There were more questions about microservices, architecture, test etc.

There was an initial coding challenge provided through HackerRank, prior to any personal interview/phone call. There was a personal message from a Hello Fresh recruiter included in the HackerRank email, but no personal email included, so no ability to contact the recruiter directly. After submitting the HackerRank challenge, there was then a technical interview with two team members, discussing the coding challenge plus additional questions. Finally there was a cultural fit interview with direct manager and one additional team member.