The technical interview included system design, database, and frontend coding rounds. The recruiter specifically told me the database round would test SQL and transactions. I prepared thoroughly for all three parts. System design and frontend coding went well. But the so-called “database” round turned out to be a Go debugging session. I was completely thrown off, because I thought I needed to debug some SQL logic. Instead, it was pure Golang debugging, which I had not prepared for at all. This kind of miscommunication really hurts the candidate experience and wastes people’s time.

Knowledge questions about technologies in my resume and data base planning question (design a table for a certin scenario and explain how would you query data from it etc), knowledge questions about sql