Kraken Digital Asset Exchange·Frontend Engineer

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange Frontend Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted May 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a video chat with a technical recruiter, and the whole first stage felt confusing and a bit improvised.

He asked me things that didn’t match the role—like quizzing me on basic concepts before any real context—and he even started down the path of asking PHP questions even though I was coming in as a React-focused frontend developer. I stopped him and explained I’d never used PHP, and the rest of the interview didn’t feel coherent to me.

After that, I moved into an hour-long technical interview with just technical questions, followed by a technical challenge. The instructions were framed around an API decision—whether to write an API server, fake it, mock it, call an external service, and so

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