I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Wise
Interview
4 rounds
- Pair programming in Java. Small coding exercise on calling an external service, while considering scalability and latency.
- System design
Discussion on your experience + system design on uber like system
- Product design
High level discussion and design of their products from e2e
- Team Lead
Intermediate java technical questions, including implementation on certain java data structures. Followed by some discussion on general CS topics.
Note that, it'll take very long for them to get back with an update. Be prepared.
The interview process was long but designed to test soft skill along with the usual coding. I felt the interviewers looked more at my thought process and evaluated how good of a teammate I would be in Wise’s environment.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The pair programming round was generic one. They gave a class with methods to be completed.
In pair-programming round i got the question on circuit breaker.
They gave an object oriented skeleton code with some placeholders to fill-up. Evaluation criteria would be mostly on if u knew about the circuit breaker before, if u are able to think and propose multiple approaches, how well you can collaborate with the interviewer.
You need not write syntax perfect code as you need not compile or execute it but the code should be optimised enough with right data structures.
I found the overall experience to be quiet good and easier than FAANG.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About Circuit Breaker that count failures in time based window
Applied online. Received online assessment link. Gave their hackerrank test which had 2 coding questions. All test cases passes. Immediately received automated mail that recruiter will contact you. After few hours got email that they have decided to move forward with other candidates.
That is my application was not even reviewed by the recruiter(which usually takes 1-2 mins) before sending the test link.