Interviewers were pleasant to talk to, and interviews were arranged swiftly. However, expecting the candidate to spend 6-8 hours on a vague design exercise that benefits their current products and subsequently ghosting them for 3 weeks is exploitative.
Very general questions being ask and not specific. Prefer more direct questions that is directly for the role. Hope this can be further improve. All the best to the next candidate.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at fileAI in Oct 2025
Interview
First round with hm, asked both frontend and backend:
BE: Covered the roles of Controller, Service, and Repository layers, data flow between them, and approaches to ensure data consistency using transactions. Also included questions on database migrations and writing SQL queries
FE: Focused on React fundamentals, including component communication between parent and child, differences between state and props, implementing infinite scrolling, handling pop-ups while maintaining background scroll, and responsive design for mobile devices.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SQL queries difference between left join left join