HelloFresh Senior Backend Engineer interview questions

The interview process was made of 3 parts - a hackerrank session, a technical interview & a behavioral interview. Overall the process was very smooth; the recruiter was very quick to provide detailed feedback after each step & the interviewers were attentive and helpful.

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.