Kraken Digital Asset Exchange·Software Engineer

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange Software Engineer interview experience

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BrazilPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first steps felt fairly straightforward: the recruiter touchpoint went fine, and the initial interview didn’t feel especially hard.

What really defined the process was a take-home technical assessment written in Rust. The difficulty ramped there, but it also felt like a clear test of practical problem-solving rather than vague trivia.

After the take-home, the technical interview mostly revolved around my choices and options from the assessment. Instead of getting grilled on completely unrelated topics, I discussed the reasoning behind what I did and how I approached tradeoffs. That made it feel like an extension of the work itself.

I didn’t get an offer in this thread. Even so, I didn’t feel like the process was

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