Ant Group Solutions Engineer interview experience

Before meeting anyone, I had to complete a video recording where I walked through how to install their product, prepare the schema, load data, run a query, and explain how the execution worked—then I also had to describe the overall architecture of OceanBase. It felt like a heavy task, because the goal wasn’t just “can you operate it,” it was “can you explain it end to end.”

After the recording, there was a case study using a fictitious company: I had to analyze the situation and propose how OceanBase should be used to address the problem. Then I finally met the hiring manager alongside a