I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at ASICS (Sydney) in Mar 2021
Interview
This was for a position as software developer for their e-commerce infrastructure. They asked me to complete an assignment consisting of a back-end part in Laravel and a front-end part in Vue (matrix multiplication). The recruitment process was very slow (several weeks) and the assignment did not specify the scope clearly so I ended up working long hours to complete it (assumed the larger scope whenever in doubt). At that point I was in contact only with the recruiter so I didn't have a contact from inside the company to which I would be able to ask for clarification.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Interview was centred around reviewing the assignment. I had sent link of the Laravel repo, Vue repo and how to run them. Their developer conducting the interview admitted that he had not run the app and did not even visit the Vue repository. He asked me to explain the architecture of the Laravel app.
We checked the controller, he asked me why I did validation the way I did (calling $request->validate() within the controller) rather than a different way (dedicated class).
