Kraken Digital Asset Exchange·Software Engineer

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange Software Engineer interview experience

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SwitzerlandPosted Nov 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview process felt stretched and unreliable, mainly because the take-home stage was very time-consuming and the scheduling around the later rounds was inconsistent.

It started with a recruiter call, then I received a take-home exercise with a 48-hour deadline. The task wasn’t “hard” in concept, but it was ambiguous and had grammar and typo issues, and if I wanted to do it properly with tests and documentation, it took me more than twenty hours.

After submitting, I had a series of calls with different team members—several focused on my background and questions about the exercise, plus additional questions about C++ and even operating-system trivia. The process also kept getting rescheduled, which meant flexibility mattered a lot. When I had questions

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