AlphaSense·Software Engineer

AlphaSense Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Helsinki, Southern FinlandPosted Jun 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a phone call from Helsinki where the recruiter gave a general overview of the company.

After that, I had a longer interview with a CTO for about an hour, focused heavily on exploring what I’d done in the past.

One thing that threw me off was the way GraphQL came up. The interviewer seemed unfamiliar with it based on the questions, but at the same time acted like he was comfortable discussing advanced topics, which made the exchange feel a bit uneven.

Then I was given a home assignment that asked for three related tables—users, posts, and comments—with a GraphQL-based Node setup. The work expected a React frontend plus an Apollo server and client.

I didn’t end up getting an

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