I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cytora (London, England) in Jan 2024
Interview
- Call with internal recruiter for cultural fit
- Take home exercise developing a rules engine in Python
- Technical interview reviewing take home exercise
- Interview with product manager
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given your rules engine, if one of the operations was expensive to execute, how would you optimise for repeated requests with the same arguments passed in? Show us how you would add this code to your solution
First stage 30 minute call testing python knowledge and fundamentals.
Reason for my experience rating: I am not sure how much these type of questions determine the experience level of someone applying for a senior position. These things are easily forgotten after finishing school and are rarely run into for a real scenario. Should focus more on past experiences and system design!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the difference between multithreading and multiprocessing in Python?
I applied online. I interviewed at Cytora (London, England)
Interview
Everyone I spoke to were very nice, honest and seemed to really understand how the company worked and what the role would include. The takehome test was interesting but quite challenging.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard interview questions and a quite challenging but fun takehome test.
