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Hiring Manager Interview: The interview focused largely on soft skills and engineering practices, including topics such as the difference between an engineer and a developer, giving and receiving feedback, testing strategies (e.g., the test pyramid), and approaches to code reviews. Coding Challenge: The experience during the coding challenge varied significantly depending on the interviewer (mine was absolutely terrible). The discussion covered topics such as the Dockerfile, dependency/version choices in the pom.xml, log and debug console output, and design decisions. In some cases, I was also questioned about features that were not part of the original challenge requirements.
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Senior Backend Engineer-Java

Interviewed at Redcare Pharmacy

3.7★
Feb 10, 2026

Hiring Manager Interview: The interview focused largely on soft skills and engineering practices, including topics such as the difference between an engineer and a developer, giving and receiving feedback, testing strategies (e.g., the test pyramid), and approaches to code reviews. Coding Challenge: The experience during the coding challenge varied significantly depending on the interviewer (mine was absolutely terrible). The discussion covered topics such as the Dockerfile, dependency/version choices in the pom.xml, log and debug console output, and design decisions. In some cases, I was also questioned about features that were not part of the original challenge requirements.

They asked in detail about my current experience, specifically how I handled and resolved production-level issues, what the problem was, how I diagnosed it, and the steps I took to fix it and prevent it from happening again.
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Semperis

4.2★
Nov 13, 2025

They asked in detail about my current experience, specifically how I handled and resolved production-level issues, what the problem was, how I diagnosed it, and the steps I took to fix it and prevent it from happening again.

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