I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at OutSystems in Feb 2021
Interview
O processo de entrevista começa com um telefonema, seguido de entrevista com alguém dos recursos humanos. Depois são mais 3 entrevistas no qual uma é técnica. A entrevista técnica é divida em duas partes, 1 hora cada e avalia conceitos de programação orientada a objetos e SQL
I applied online. I interviewed at OutSystems (Lisboa, Lisboa) in Jan 2021
Interview
The first interview took place with 2 OutSystems people. One of them from the HR team and the other from the team I was applying to. This was great since it allowed a better explanation of what the job was and made it straightforward to cover any questions I may have had. The following two interviews were technical, checking how much a foundation I had in the technologies I specified myself, the way these were conducted felt mostly like a conversation, which was great.
Also, the time between the interviews and the feedback was amazing. I always got feedback the day after the interview. That itself made me trust the way the company works a lot more.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are you looking for in a job right now? And how do you want your career to pan out in the following 3-5 years?
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?