Candidatei-me por meio de recrutador(a). O processo levou 2 semanas. Fui entrevistado pela Form3 em ago. de 2021
Entrevista
After an initial check-in call will a recruiter you get invited to take an exercise at home (writing a client for a fake API they provide).
The good part is that there is no time limit for submitting the test, but the review process left me totally puzzled.
After providing extensive unit and behavior test suite (especially on sad paths) with full test coverage, a perfectly working client, documentation and even a working example on how to use it all i got was a rejection with three reasons that didn’t make real sense if you take a look at the code.
I spent 3 full days at reading over and over again those rejection reasons and well, they still just don’t make any sense since what they said it isn’t what’s inside the code.
This is a very demanding test if you want to make it very well, and therefore it is unacceptable to get rejection on something that just doesn’t exists or is just pure personal and biased preference.
I think that they use the test to see if you code like they want/expect, rather than understanding if you really can code or not and know what you are doing.
At this point all I can say is that I should feel lucky I got rejected.
Watch out candidates, huge risk of wasting your of time.
Perguntas de entrevista [2]
Pergunta 1
Are you willing to be on an on-call shift rotation?
Candidatei-me por meio de recrutador(a). O processo levou 3 semanas. Fui entrevistado pela Form3 (Buenos Aires) em nov. de 2022
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It was a pretty straightforward process. One screening interview, a take home exercise, and a technical interview. The technical interview has different levels of complexity, from discussing the exercise implementation to infrastructure decisions.
An exemplary recruitment process:
- Well-organized / structured: 1. Call with a recruiter; 2. Offline coding exercise; 3. 3 30-min slots (within 1.5 hour block) of interviews with engineering team members.
- All candidates feel welcome, also technology/language-agnostic OOP-oriented engineers: no hard requirement to have golang background.
- Friendly, pressure-free environment: the candidate is encouraged to learn golang at their own pace before attempting the exercise. Talent acquisition team keep in touch to enquire about the progress and see if the candidate is still interested in the role but without creating an artificial pressure or enforcing strict timelines.
- Relevant to the role: As a coding exercise, the candidate is asked to develop an http client library to integrate with the flagship product of Form3 - a few sample endpoints of the payment API. As part of the interview with the engineering team, the candidate has an opportunity to understand the Form3 architecture, design a real-life distributed system, debug a simulated production issue in the Form3 systems as a role-playing game.
- Prompt post-interview feedback (48 hours).
Perguntas de entrevista [3]
Pergunta 1
Coding exercise in golang: http client library using Form3 api
Debugging/ investigating a live production issue in Form3 systems in the form of a role-playing game. How to approach setting up a CI/CD pipeline in a startup vs a bigger company? Questions about the technologies mentioned in the CV.
Candidatei-me por meio de recrutador(a). O processo levou 3 semanas. Fui entrevistado pela Form3 (Londres, Inglaterra) em jun. de 2022
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I had a very good meeting during screening call. The guy even shared a tips for the home exercise. I had to spent 5 days to write the code with developing the client library, unit testing, integration testing, makefile, setting dockerfile and so on.
After 4 days, i received the feedback and its really annoying clarification from the panels (who ever you are).
It seems they are Gen-Y(who always complain and not really look into the implementation code). The comments from them are only focus on configuration, not able to run the code(even i tried download it from different machine and run it without an issue). Cry baby !!
i felt like the whole comments is just not relevant. You guys need to be more matured and maybe ask more senior guys to involve in the process.
To management : you guys really need to see all of the comments from the bad response. You are having a DIVA type of developers review our code