I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at ASX (Sydney) in Aug 2024
Interview
A contractor solution designer was conducting interview for modernising existing services onto a cloud platform. Very poor experience overall as the questions consist mostly of your ability to memories framework configurations, see below. Had immediately contacted recruiter to reject role as soon as interview was done. The guy in-charge of design seem to have limited cloud experience and will likely force engineering to build subpar products. This is a major red flag for me.
Interview questions [8]
Question 1
What is the exact configuration in Spring to declare two DB connectors? (I usually use auto-complete in IDE or copy/paste from official doc)
What is the name of the maven plug in to generate code from API spec? How do you configure it to generate code from 2 API spec on the same project? (Can't remember the name of the plugin at the time, but I happen to be a open-source contributor to that maven plugin template for Java/Spring codegen many years ago)
Exact question: "What is a database 'thing' that you use to add/update/delete the database?" (I said 'Do you mean JPA?', interviewer responded 'Have you used Flyway?', 'Oh you mean schema management, yes I've use Liquibase', 'I did not use the word schema management because that you would know what I meant immediately'. At this point the interview had turned into a word guessing puzzle game)
Describe the steps you would configure AWS API-Gateway on the Web UI? (I went blank, I've only done that using Terraform and proceed to lecture him about Terraform)
