Kraken Digital Asset Exchange·Software Engineer

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Mar 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started with an internal recruiter reaching out quickly, then I was set up over Zoom.

First I had a conversation with two senior developers, and then I was given a take-home assignment. They only gave me two days to complete it, which was enough to finish a working version, but not enough to polish everything. The emphasis was clearly on security, and I remember it feeling like that would be the deciding factor—miss security expectations and the rest wouldn’t matter.

After I submitted, I had another video call. In my assignment review, I was judged heavily on backend security details even though the role I was applying for was frontend-focused. I had implemented a lot of

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