HelloFresh·Software Engineer

HelloFresh Software Engineer interview experience

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GermanyPosted Mar 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for a senior software engineer backend role and went through several rounds.

Before the last interview, I stopped the process because they didn’t offer the role and salary I wanted, and I also found out they didn’t start people on full-time contracts—only a two-year limited contract to begin with, which felt unusual for Berlin.

The process started with a recruiter call that emphasized how difficult it is to get into the company, which set an odd, condescending tone that continued elsewhere. Then came a take-home test where they emphasized production-level code and strict coding standards. The coding interview was supposed to be pair programming but ended up looking

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