SIXT·Backend Engineer

SIXT Backend Engineer interview experience

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Lisbon, Lisbon DistrictPosted Jan 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

This one felt like a seriously academic process from the beginning.

The first phase was a HackerEarth test that lasted about an hour. It wasn’t “hard” in the usual sense, but it cared about code efficiency, not just getting the logic right. I scored around 62.5% and moved forward.

The next phase was a live interview-style coding session with engineers that also lasted about an hour. I did live coding with questions that leaned into core Java details—strings, exception handling—plus a logic or math problem. I also got an analysis task where the point was to reason about algorithm efficiency rather than just produce an answer.

The overall difficulty was very

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