New Relic·Backend Engineer

New Relic Backend Engineer interview experience

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Tel Aviv-YafoPosted Feb 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first interview involved talking through a project I’d done, then going into a coding exercise with a strict 40-minute solve window.

They also gave the option to finish after the interview and send it back, which I appreciated because it made the format feel a little more flexible than a hard stop. The next round was with a group lead focused on an architecture question.

Even with the two-step structure, the difficulty felt high because the architecture discussion was the real differentiator. I spent a lot of time thinking about how I would structure decisions, tradeoffs, and system-level constraints, and the coding portion tested speed and focus under time pressure.

I wasn’t offered the role. My honest reflection was

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