Dataiku·Software Engineer

Dataiku Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

FrancePosted Oct 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first steps were straightforward: a recruiter call where they introduced the company and asked about my motivation, then a technical interview with a short quiz at the end.

After that, I was given a take-home test with no formal time limit, but it was framed around an expectation of not spending more than about 10 hours.

The assignment was to build a website with both backend and frontend, aimed at what felt like near-production quality. The problem was that I never received real specifications about the expected level of quality. I kept noticing more ways I could improve—logging, tests, documentation, and UI polish—but since the instruction also implied I shouldn’t spend too long, I had to stop at some point. I expected the chance to explain and defend what I

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