First stage with CTO about experience, second stage backend focused chat, third stage frontend focused, and last stage culture check.
Reason for experience rating: smooth process, the team seemed honest
I applied online. I interviewed at Ellipse Data (London, England)
Interview
Initial outreach and introductory call: The process started with a first email exchange followed by an intro call, during which they focused mainly on understanding my motivation, career goals, expectations for the role, and overall fit with the team and company.
Technical assignment: I was then given a Python task focused on data extraction and manipulation using a tennis dataset, aimed at assessing my ability to work with real-world data, structure clean code, and derive meaningful insights.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me to write a Python data extraction script, and then they told me they had filled the position internally.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Ellipse Data (London, England) in Jan 2023
Interview
I had multiple calls with different members of the team such as the Software Architect and Head of engineering.
The questions were related to my previous experience and the architecture questions. Most of the interview was related to AWS services such as S3, EC2, Athena, etc. Some other questions were related to scalability or real-time pub/sub like Kafka.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What technologies would you use to deliver real-time data?
