Scalable Capital Backend Engineer interview experience

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BerlinPosted Sep 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Recruiting started with a brief call with the company’s recruiter, where I asked a clarifying question about the “security” wording in the job title.

The response was that they weren’t sure, and that uncertainty made me prepare for something broader. A Codility test followed with two parts: first, fixing code so tests pass by iterating until it works, and second, building a simple CRUD controller. I didn’t get all tests to pass, and the feedback situation felt muddy—there was ambiguity about test naming and I even sent a screenshot to argue that one test case wasn’t right, but I didn’t receive a direct follow-up.

After that, the technical interview with the tech lead covered a wide range of topics, but the focus ended up feeling

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