HHackerRank·Backend Engineer

HackerRank Backend Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Sep 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an email developer hiring challenge that kicked off the process.

It included a couple of string-focused programming questions with a time limit of 75 minutes, and then I did more work through CodePair—two additional DS/Algo questions in about 45 minutes. After that, I had a take-home assignment to implement an API with a 48-hour window, plus a database design round.

The take-home assignment was where things got stressful. The environment and tooling weren’t in my favor: the Python/Django versions looked outdated, the preview browser wouldn’t work, and the online IDE even crashed for hours. Even with those issues, I still felt like the assignment was

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