Deel·Backend Engineer

Deel Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

IndiaPosted Jun 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a recruiter screen where I was given a take-home task with requirements laid out in a README.

The instructions also said not to over-engineer, but the expectations still felt ambiguous: I noticed questions being tested that weren’t clearly spelled out, and it was hard to know how much coverage would satisfy the reviewer.

I put in a lot of effort to keep the code clean and structured, including tests and careful handling, but the feedback I got ended up being pretty harsh on tiny nuances. What frustrated me most was how the feedback didn’t seem to reflect the actual intent of the prompt—for example, being penalized for things that were part of the time/structure tradeoff they’d

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