Long interview process with several steps. After a long time interviewing, they made an offer way below the advertised range.
The interview steps: intro, questions, coding 1, coding 2, system design
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Shallow questions about database indexing and networking
Candidatei-me online. Fiz uma entrevista na empresa River (Columbus, OH).
Entrevista
1st round screen, with basic technical questions (e.g. what is an index)
2nd round is technical Q&A trivia style. Covers DB's, API design, OWASP top 10.
3rd round is a basic coding exercise that is a subset of Bitcoin's op codes and tests your ability to evaluate a stack
Candidatei-me online. Fui entrevistado pela River em jan. de 2026
Entrevista
Pretentious interviewing dynamics. The CEO conducts the initial screening calls himself, but lacks the interviewing skills to effectively evaluate candidates for the position he's hiring for. He questions Staff-level ICs using college-level topics, such as database indexing and TCP/IP. Do Staff engineers at River implement databases from scratch or internet protocols? This approach is likely to attract only overpaid juniors.
Perguntas de entrevista [2]
Pergunta 1
What is a database index, and what structure does it use?