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      Software Engineer Interview

      19 Mar 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Recursive in Feb 2024

      Interview

      Took the interview in Feb 2024. Before application, I already have to answer a bunch of questions like my goals in 5 years and such. It is the first time, answering that details before submitting your CV. Isn't that supposed to be done in a face-to-face interview? Then it came to the take-home assignment, which is about system design. From frontend, backend to infrastructure, 500 words each and graphs required. Get prepared to spend your weekend, if not two, to get the assignment done. Then it was the frontend coding test, which needs to fetch data from urls and use Chart.js to plot graphs out of it, within 1 hour (actually coding time around 45mins). Data extraction from urls was relatively easy, but you'd be in a big panic if you haven't used Chart.js before and it is needed to dig into the doc to find out the useful part to plot graphs. They asked candidates to do the test in Codepen, which is a NIGHTMARE! The editor sucks so hard, autocomplete partially working, and it won't tell you if you have a html or js syntax problem. I wasted like 5 mins only to locate bugs that VSCode could probably tell me immediately. The interviewer was helpful but tbh not really polite, looked like was in a rush or what, idk but maybe was forced to attend the interview.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Take home assignment: System Design
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Frontend code test: plot graphs in Codepen
      1 Answer
      5

      Other Software Engineer interview reviews for Recursive

      Software Engineer Interview

      10 Jan 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Recursive in Jan 2024

      Interview

      First step: take-home systems design question on something similar to Google Image Search. Second step: programming question online. They say it can be frontend/backend depending on candidate's interest, but that was not the case for me; I was forced into frontend question. Overall experience was miserable: one interviewer was late and they had a combined word count of 20 during the interview despite my efforts to get some words out of them.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. system design question: google image search 2. given some stock ticker numbers plot them on a graph using graphjs
      Answer question
      5

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