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      Back End Engineer Interview

      Sep 11, 2020
      Anonymous employee
      London, England

      Other Back End Engineer Interview Reviews for Thought Machine

      Back End Engineer Interview

      Jul 2, 2020
      Anonymous employee
      London, England
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Thought Machine (London, England) in Jul 2020

      Interview

      My interview process was as follows: - Phone screen with a recruiter - Take-home coding test (48 hours) - 1 hour coding review - 2 1-hour algorithms interviews The coding test was pretty standard for a take-home test, it's up to you how many of the 48 hours you want to put in to get it up to your standards. The interviews that followed were all back-to-back with small breaks. For the coding review make sure to prepare on how you would deploy or scale your solution and brush up on the technologies involved. Leetcode makes good practice for the algorithms interviews, but the interviewers were very helpful throughout. Overall my experience was very positive and the recruiter who was handling my application process was very nice and checked in with me throughout! And you can tell Thought Machine gives a lot of value to good engineers.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Q: Asking questions about some Kafka concepts
      Answer question
      2
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Thought Machine (London, England)

      Interview

      I was contacted by a recruiter. Went through two calls, one with recruiter and one group presentation with a C-level executive. Then, I had an offline coding challenge which took 4 hours to complete. Afterwards, I had a virtual on-site with three calls: one code review, and two algorithmic challenges. After a few days, I was called back and received an offer. After signing an offer, the company also does a background check on your profile. Overall, I'm very happy with the process. COVID-19 had impacted my employment status, so it was great to receive an offer from Thought Machine. The process was also really smooth, and the company seems to have no trouble transitioning to a 100% remote hiring process.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Coding challenge in building an object-oriented solution.
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      A medium-level graph question
      1 Answer
      3

      Back End Engineer Interview

      Aug 11, 2018
      Anonymous employee
      London, England
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Thought Machine (London, England) in Apr 2018

      Interview

      The process at Thought Machine begins, uniquely, with a cultural test - essentially a drinks & mingling session with some current developers and other applicants, with a talk with the CEO halfway through. They then decide if you would fit in culturally there before sending you a 48 hour coding challenge. If they like your solution, you are then brought in for 3 final back-to-back interviews with their engineers - a reivew of your code; an algorithm task; and depending on your experience, either another algorithm task or a system design task.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      They wanted to know why I structured my solution to the at-home coding task the way I did.
      1 Answer
      4