Kraken Digital Asset Exchange·Software Engineer

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Ottawa, ONPosted May 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first interaction began with a recruiter reaching out and then asking for a take-home sample based on simulating part of their operations.

It was positioned as something I could complete on my own time, but when I turned it in I only received a short rejection with no real explanation or breakdown of what went wrong. I remember feeling like the communication treated the work as disposable rather than something they expected to evaluate.

The workload itself varied across the process, but the theme stayed the same: the assignments were heavy enough to be time-consuming, and yet the feedback was essentially nonexistent. On one attempt, I worked for far longer than the prompt suggested—easily into the range where it felt closer to

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