Fetch·Backend Engineer

Fetch Backend Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Sep 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I put in a real effort on the take-home, and they clearly cared about production-quality output.

In my case it took a few hours, and I remember feeling the pressure around implementing the work in a way that looked ready for real use, not just a demo.

After that, I got invited to an in-person interview where they asked pointed questions about what I had built and required me to modify parts of it while explaining my approach. The bar felt high, and it didn’t read like they were only validating basic software engineering fundamentals.

Even though the process sounded fairly smooth overall, the result didn’t match my expectations. I ultimately wasn’t selected—one time due to a perceived

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