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      Senior Backend Engineer Interview

      Dec 6, 2021
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Andela

      Interview

      Basic English test to confirm that one is proficient. It is followed by coding test for the particular stack one is comfortable with. Then the oral interview with lead engineer. When that is successful, you get into the pool.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Q: Explain Dependency Injection in a non-technical way.
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      2

      Other Senior Backend Engineer Interview Reviews for Andela

      Senior Backend Engineer Interview

      Sep 7, 2022
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Andela in Jul 2022

      Interview

      I applied as a Backend Engineer (Python) It was a 3-stage interview process : 1.- First they send you 3 Hackerrank problems (easy to medium difficulty). If you score more than 62.5% you move to the next stage. I didn't get any feedback about the exercises, and probably no one is reviewing them, its just a first automatic test to filter candidates. 2.- An automated English test in emmersion.ai (listen and repeat and open questions). You need to get B2 at least. I got C1. One tip: Talk as much as you can while answering the open-ended questions, and try to use 3.- A mix of Behavioral and Technical interview (conceptual questions + easy coding problem). This was the worst experience I ever had in an interview, and the worse interviewer I ever met. First, his English level was too bad, it was very difficult to understand him. I'm not a native speaker and my english is far from perfect, but I was expecting a higher english level in an interviewer. He had to write down most of the questions in the chat. Second, It wasn't a nice conversation like in other interviews I had. He had an attitude like he didn't care about what I was saying and It didn't allow me to explain my answers. He gave me less than 5 seconds to answer, then next question. He was like a robot with a list. He asked for several acronyms but didn't allow me to explain de concept, I had to say what each letter stand for exactly and move to the next one fast. I had the impression that he didn't have a good understand of the topics he was asking about. Third, at the end of the interview he told me that I had 12 minutes to solve a coding problem using my development environment. I started talking to the interviewer to understand better the problem as it's usual in this kind of interviews but he stopped me and literally told me "You don't need to speak and you can't ask questions. You have twelve minutes and you just lost one. " Regardless of all this I was able to answer most of the questions, I solved the coding challenge, and I passed. After joining the Andela network I also realized that they don't have many job opportunities as they promise. The platform where you see the jobs is clunky, and many jobs posted there are not available anymore. Then eventually their "matchers" reach you with some job offer but they usually don't match with your skills. And even if you match with a client now you need to start a new interviewing process with the client. IMO It really doesn't worth joining Andela, don't waste your time. I'll elaborate more when I leave my review about the companny.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Questions about my stack (Python / Django): - What is a Queryset - How do you filter and how do you get one object in - Django - How do you implement an endpoint in DRF - What kinds of serializers exist in DRF - How do you create a session in Django - Type the name of a Django Exception - Which is Django's Architecture -> MVT - What is CORS and how do you support CORS in Django - What are static files and how do you collect staticfiles - What is SQL Injecton and How does Django prevents it - What's the difference between SQL and NoSQL databases - How do you create a Django project - Describe the structure of a Django project - Explain git stash - How do you secure an API - Whats an integration test and a unit test - What are mocks and stubs - Explain the difference between encryption/hashing/encoding
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      Question 2

      Coding Challenge Return the repeated numbers and a count of them: e.g. Input: [1,2,3,4,6,6,7,8,9,5,2,6,1,8] output: {1: 2, 2: 2, 6: 3, 8: 2}
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