athenahealth·Software Engineer

athenahealth Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

ChennaiPosted Feb 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I cleared the Hackerrank problem, I was called for an in-person discussion that included three rounds: a technical round for about an hour, a design round for about an hour, and a manager round for about thirty minutes.

The manager round began like a quick walkthrough—“tell me about yourself” and then questions about the projects I’d worked on.

I explained that I worked on a rate limiting system. The interviewer interrupted and suggested it wasn’t necessary and that it could be handled with a firewall, and when I tried to clarify my reasoning, they didn’t seem open to it. We then moved into CSRF, and they made a similar kind of claim that CSRF prevention wasn’t needed and that HTTPS could replace it. Throughout the conversation there were several other statements I found off-base as well, including things

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