Kraken·Backend Engineer

Kraken Backend Engineer interview experience

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TokyoPosted Dec 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed with Kraken for a backend-focused role in Tokyo, and the process felt professional throughout even though I ended up rejected.

It started with an HR round where they asked about my motivation for changing jobs and also tested my basic Japanese conversation skills. Japanese wasn’t required for the role, but it was treated as a nice-to-have.

A second round followed with two engineers. There wasn’t any coding test there—just discussion about my technical stack and experience, which felt like it was mainly checking cultural fit. After that, I received a take-home assignment to implement a Python script under Django to parse CSV data. I spent a couple hours on it, and then I moved into a third interview where I had to

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