I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Hazelcast in Aug 2025
Interview
There was a take home test, the test itself is ambigious, but not in a gud way, it's more of an amateurish ambiguity set by a "core team" and it was ridiculous tbh, their "core team" is a bunch of regular java devs it seems, but the role description talks about jvm internals knowledge etc, maybe that's why redis dominates, it is a joke really, bunch of regular "api" type java devs who've never done anything serious setting up the test and the review was even more ridiciulous, for any serious jvm guyz, stay away from them.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Hazelcast (Las Vegas, NV) in Jul 2023
Interview
The interview process was three stage - starting with one of top sales reps, followed by the VP of sales, and ending with the CRO. Overall process was quick and straightforward - candid along the way.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your experience with selling opensource software? How would you strategically build your key T1 customer relationships while attacking a ripe territory full of opensource users?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Hazelcast (London, England) in Jul 2024
Interview
The recruiter initiated a conversation via a job portal to which I had responded in assertive. Had an initial screening setup which felt like I was talking to a bot (not sure but it was truly my feeling). Didn't ask much, it felt like it was a namesake interview as I was pondering that morning (on the day of interview) as to why the job post was brought down. It's a shame! If the position was filled, be courteous and brave enough to inform the candidate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Hazelcast.
It was more about the company brag. Sadly nothing appeasing.