Scalable Capital Software Engineer interview experience

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BerlinPosted May 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an assessment that felt disconnected from how I usually work.

My first round involved a lightweight Java coding task, but it was done in the browser using a very limited Codility environment: no real IDE support, no helpful autocomplete, and no easy way to validate things as I went. Worse, the input and expected output were adjusted a few times while I was working, so I had to constantly re-interpret what “correct” meant.

After the coding portion, the discussion moved toward related topics like concurrency, but the whole setup left me worrying that I was being evaluated on compliance with unrealistic constraints more than on real problem-solving. I

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