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      Backend Software Engineer Interview

      Sep 1, 2021
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience

      Other Backend Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Primer

      Backend Developer Interview

      Aug 20, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Primer in Dec 2020

      Interview

      It was lengthy, but always fair. I was applying for a relatively senior position, so they had to make sure. There was a tech challenge which I always appreciate, rather than arbitrary questions from textbooks. Also I had a chat with the founder early on, which was great.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What role do you see yourself in?
      1 Answer

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Primer in Jun 2024

      Interview

      The interview process was tedious long and took around 4 weeks. During the interview, they will ask a lot of questions not related to work role. After I researched the company, their company culture was fake and hypocritical. The company was the startup survived by fund raising, but they claimed that 100% remote was their benefit, not to mention their layoffs process in 2022.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      The take home exercise about payment program
      Answer question
      1

      Backend Developer Interview

      Jul 7, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Primer in Jul 2021

      Interview

      The interview was fairly standard, consisted of initial talks with an internal recruiter, followed by a chat with the CTO/CPO, a take-home technical exercise, and a potential discussion on the solution, with other engineers. The initial talk/call was decent, the recruiter was enthusiastic and polite, whilst scoping out my background, to the point where they were sending reminders via text. The next stage with the CTO was quite odd as he seemed fairly uninterested with having the chat in the first place, up until we started talking about the product and how revolutionary it could be. The take home test was fairly easy, and it shouldn't take more than 4-5 hours to complete (with deployment) Now, for a startup that preaches about moving fast, the team took well more than a couple days to come back to me, and that was only when pressed. Supposedly, after "careful consideration" they decided to not proceed. Quite odd, given that the logs did no record any visits to the deployed task. Unfortunate as the project seems quite interesting.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Generic Questions about previous roles, how well I know their product
      Answer question
      5