Kraken Digital Asset Exchange·Frontend Engineer

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange Frontend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

London, EnglandPosted May 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a Zoom call with a recruiter, then I was pulled into a live coding interview with engineers.

We moved quickly, and I went into it thinking it would be a normal experience—everyone was polite, and the atmosphere didn’t feel hostile at first. The moment the coding task started, though, things went off the rails.

The interview used a web IDE link. I began writing code, but the environment wouldn’t recognize what I submitted. I spent a long stretch troubleshooting, checking with the engineers, and watching them try to get the same setup to work as well. For about the first three quarters of the session, it felt like we were stuck in tooling rather than actually building anything, with

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