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      Python Backend Engineer Interview

      2 Mar 2020
      Anonymous employee
      London, England
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tessian (London, England) in Feb 2020

      Interview

      A phone call to assess interest. This was quickly followed by an online coding test. Then a video call coding test with an engineer (about 1 hour). Finally an in person interview at their office. This was 1h45 of technical questions with 2 engineers. Then 45minutes with the Head of Engineering.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Design an algorithm for solving the word puzzle, going from a to b changing only one letter at a time, given a dictionary.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Write some simple SQL queries.
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Explain some cyber security concerns.
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