Deel Backend Engineer interview experience

It began with an intro-and-get-to-know-you conversation, then moved into an assessment where I had to complete a task under a time limit. After that came a technical interview on a meeting platform where they asked about SQL and feature architecture.

The vibe was the thing that threw me off. The interviewers didn’t seem engaged; it felt like they were hunting for a specific answer rather than really listening to my reasoning. In some parts of the SQL questions, I tried approaches that could produce the same results by transforming the query, but it came across like they only wanted a