Kraken Digital Asset Exchange·Software Engineer

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United Arab EmiratesPosted Apr 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process centered on a technical test where they validated my solution by checking whether the output matched what they expected.

What surprised me was how narrow the evaluation felt: if the output didn’t line up, they wouldn’t consider the rest of my submission, even when I thought the underlying design and code quality were solid.

I experienced the overall loop as average in difficulty, but the way they measured success felt blunt. I remember putting effort into things like how the code was structured, and I even cared about clean implementation and testing, but the mechanism they used for deciding still came down to output matching.

I didn’t receive an offer, and the biggest lingering thought was that the test

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