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Wise Software Engineer interview experience

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London, EnglandPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter conversation, I moved into a live technical interview that centered on building production-style reliability logic.

I had to implement a circuit breaker for two separate “services,” and while the exercise was straightforward on paper, I found myself struggling because I hadn’t used Java in a while. The rest of the loop felt consistent with that same practical direction.

A previous stage I did alongside this process was an online assessment that leaned into common backend tasks: REST APIs, basic sorting, and SQL querying. It felt like a pre-screen designed to filter for fundamentals rather than trick me with puzzles. In the full loop, the sequence then continued from recruiter and hiring-manager

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