Tessian·Backend Engineer

Tessian Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

London, EnglandPosted Jul 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a 2-hour HackerRank test, which then led into three follow-up technical/value stages.

First I did a 1-hour code-pair interview with an engineering manager, then I had another 2-hour code-pair interview with two senior software engineers. After that, I went into a 1-hour values interview with the head of engineering.

By the time I finished, I had pretty high hopes because everything felt positive and collaborative. Still, I didn’t get an offer. When I asked for feedback, HR told me the deciding factor was that I took a little bit of time to solve one problem—even though the actual solve time I spent was under 30 minutes within a 2-hour interview—and that I hadn’t explained my

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