The recruiter was great. The first interviewer assumed I was a Trump supporter and both interviewers acted hostile after that assumption (I'm not). Went on telling other candidates about me and my assumed political position. They don't seem to understand the differences in acceptable behavior between Europe and the United States. Feedback said I had poor customer service skills after working in customer-facing roles successfully for over 5 years. The team manager does not understand how indexing works and tried to tell me that re-indexing a table after every input is faster than auto-indexing.
The language barrier is a huge problem for US employees because the questions were not worded properly and the initial assessment had grammatical and logical errors everywhere.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What should you do if you receive an email with "!!!" in it?
2. How can you increase the efficiency of a database?
I went through four phases. The first two were related to my experience and fit for the position and the last two were technical challenges (sql, algorithms and system design).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to design the classes and methods of a small application.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at OutSystems (Braga) in Mar 2025
Interview
There were 3 interviews in total: 1 screening interview with the project manager and 2 technical interviews with members of the engineering team.
All interviews were 1 hour long.
The whole interview process took about 2 weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the first technical interview, they asked me to solve a few coding problems, either about SQL or about algorithms and optimization.
The second interview was about software architecture, where they gave me the description for a small application and asked me how I would implement it.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at OutSystems (Lisboa, Lisboa) in Feb 2025
Interview
Fast and straight to the point, spoke with team manager and had 2 technical interviews with the dev team. All interviews were remote, nice and friendly people. The manager answered my questions as well and asked for expectations
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Work experience and challenges faced in previous work