Ion Group·Software Engineer

Ion Group Software Engineer interview experience

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MilanPosted Sep 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started with a logic test that used geometric shapes to be combined, which I personally didn’t feel was clearly relevant.

Then I had a call with two senior developers. That part was rough: the questions felt vague, and the way my answers were received felt similarly imprecise.

After that, I was given a super straightforward pseudocode coding exercise, and then asked to modify it to use a more advanced Java construct involving a mutex. What threw me off was that Java hadn’t been highlighted as a prerequisite in earlier steps. I also ended up having to rewrite a Hackerrank-style solution in Java even though I’d already solved it successfully using JavaScript.

Because I hadn’t been actively using Java recently, I

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