I applied online. I interviewed at Binance in Apr 2018
Interview
Very disorganized, high volume, spammy. The recruiter was just using copy/paste messages, scheduled a time, then was a no-show and wasn't even able to answer calls/emails about being unavailable. He later messages me 2 hours later because he didn't understand how to convert the timezone telling me that the meeting is "now."
Make no mistake, the timezone he scheduled this in was only 2 hours away from my timezone. I have no idea where this guy is located, but he really needs to get a grip and focus on the recruiting process. I spent over an hour researching and preparing, only to have been dealing with a bozo spammer recruiter the entire time. Oh, and he wasn't a third-party recruiter, he works directly for Binance as an employee.
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Approached me for an interview, I did not apply for it explicitly. Sent me an invite, not much explanation on the interview. During the interview, the interviewer said "you are so confident, aren't you?" in a patronizing, condescending, cocky tone. During live coding section, interviewer went missing for awhile when I asked questions. No rejection e-mail either, completely ghosted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How sure are you that you are ready for this role?
bad, disrespectful. interviewer was late and kept asking non related questions. Every question was disconnected and interviewer did not turn on camera. Also speak chinese during the whole interview, mumbling throughout couldn’t understand anything.
The interviewer started the interview by speaking in Mandarin, which was not what i expected as the recruiter spoke to me in English and didn't inform me that the interview would be conducted in Mandarin.
There were quite a few communication problems through the interview as i struggled a little to understand the technical terms in mandarin, since i am not from China and learned computer science in English.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The coding question was ok: merge lists, find out whether a number in listA is smaller than in listB, etc.
However, i was asked some pretty difficult questions later on. Eg, Redis operations (which i obviously couldn't answer due to no experience with redis), ways to prevent double booking, rate limiting in a distributed environment (how to track all the counters)...
