Kraken·Software Engineer

Kraken Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

SpainPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process felt straightforward at first: an HR conversation, then a take-home case study for a few hours, followed by a presentation to an engineer and then a final decision after that.

I treated the scenario seriously and tried to align my work with what was described, but something about the way the expectations were communicated didn’t quite match how the feedback later landed.

After I submitted and presented, the rejection response referenced specific shortcomings that didn’t feel consistent with what I had shown. In particular, I was told I hadn’t completed parts that were either included in my submission or could be verified from what I delivered. The feedback also referenced documentation and testing in ways that seemed hard to reconcile with the time window and the

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