First interview with a guy who frankly didn't want to be talking to me and was not interested in me or answering questions. Seemed like he hated his job.
Next round. 2 hours of endless grilling on every technical question under the sun. Video interview where they did not turn on their camera and did not answer any questions that you had about the company. They said they'd answer questions, but when you asked, they said that's for a later interview, not this one. After 2 hours of grilling about what does this technical thing do and that syntax do compared to some other highly specific language syntax on python, sql, docker, kubernetes, aws, they then gave an easy sql question and a medium leetcode question where they expected you to be able to answer with working code without resources while they watched you code. The solution required some specfic formatting...but unless you spend your time remembering how to format outputs...good luck. Frankly, these guys are just out to make interviewees sufffer. Really...quite an unnecessarily painful experience. If the goal was to weed people out, they succeeded...but why torture their interviewees so much and for so long?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what are the 5 class methods in python. Tell me what this command does and that command does in docker, kubernetes, and github actions.
They wanted python code on the spot where you can process a list of objects and tuples, put them into a data structure like a dictionary, do some data structure manipulations, and be able to output the the results as a tuple of objects.
It’s easy all question belong to real time work and few they copied from google.
Question was asked based interviewer skills, later there is no update from team either it’s positive or not
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at EPAM Systems (Žilina) in Jul 2024
Interview
First round is quick HR call. Second round was technical interview. It was pretty good, nothing crazy. Questions were specific to the position. I did well but did not get the job as I did not have experience/skills in one of the technologies they needed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They mostly asked to write code in ABAP or some SQL queries.