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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 14, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Trainline (London, England) in Aug 2020

      Interview

      Really poor. You're on a call with a bunch of people that throw all the buzzwords at you, "Tech agnostic", "Upskilling", "Forward thinking", etc. Then proceed to ask a few very basic questions about C# theory and about your current role and system architecture, what you work on, your day to day job, etc. I explained this and asked similar questions back at them about their tech and architecture which was received with some awkward silence. Eventually got the feedback that I was vague about my current role, and then gave me negative feedback on questions that they didn't even ask me which I didn't really understand.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Can you describe the advantages of Microservices?
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Describe what API middleware is and talk about any custom ones you have implemented.
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Describe the current architecture of the system you're working on.
      Answer question

      Other Senior Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Trainline

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 3, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Trainline (London, England)

      Interview

      Technical questions and coding test on GitHub, three interviews in total and took over 4 weeks. Lots of people on video call to grill you from dev manger to leads to product owners.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Design patterns and algorithms, etc
      Answer question

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 23, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Trainline in Feb 2024

      Interview

      It as an hour interview, lots of really good chats about my work experience, technologies and also technical round. The interviewers seems friendly and chatty and gave a good interview. I felt good after that and was hoping for feedback. 5 weeks have passed, there has been no contact from the internal recruiter and no feedback. Interviews are about finding the right candidate to what company are looking for but on the other side, candidates also like to find out if they are right for the job and the company. Considering the interviewers and the internal recruiters acts as the forefront and representation of the company, I felt that the no response was a big thumbs down. I did not go and find out if there was a response as I thought this is part of the internal recuiter's role. Hence I was very disappointed that I did not get a reply on the interview afterwards or any feedback. Do I want to work in such a company? This review says it all.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      A snippet of code for code reviewing exercise
      Answer question
      3

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Oct 14, 2022
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Trainline (London, England) in Sep 2022

      Interview

      A 10 minutes initial call. 1st round interview planned for 60 minutes but it was 70 minutes as we talked about variety of things. It contained Job Description and Company review, CV review, and a chance to choose between a code review challenge and a code writing challenge. I choose Code Review and it was easy but has some tricky points. We discuss possible improvements and bugs. 2nd round was a 90 minutes coding challenge. The implementation should be ready for production, therefore, the aim is not to complete the task. The aim is to show them how would you work. I received a feedback and "Using a complex solution" was a reason why I got rejected. I think it was not a fair assessment as in real world, I review my code and simplify what ever I can. Yet, I appreciate the feedback.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Pair programming and code review.
      Answer question

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