Whatnot·Software Engineer

Whatnot Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Los Angeles, CAPosted Oct 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a 45-minute video call with the hiring manager where we talked through my background.

The conversation also included a few technical questions focused on Terraform / AWS / Kubernetes, which set the stage for what felt like a pretty hands-on evaluation next.

After that, I was emailed a take-home assignment: deploy a Hello World Python app to Kubernetes via Docker. I was told I’d automatically be scheduled for a follow-up interview upon submission, regardless of the solution, to explain how I implemented it. I spent my entire weekend building the project, refining the code, and writing a couple pages explaining my technical choices in detail.

A few hours after submitting, I

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