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What microservices have you built? What is your experienece with Golang and Python? What do you not like about Golang? *If my experineces were not a match, you could have determined from my resume* DO NOT INSULT CANDIDATES DURING AN INTERVIEW!
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Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Cloudflare

3.3
Nov 30, 2020

What microservices have you built? What is your experienece with Golang and Python? What do you not like about Golang? *If my experineces were not a match, you could have determined from my resume* DO NOT INSULT CANDIDATES DURING AN INTERVIEW!

They gave me a scenario based question, asking me how I would design a python based backend that can handle high concurrency issue associated with their website now that it has become super popular (especially when new chapters are released every Sunday at 3PM UTC).

Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Materra

Oct 20, 2025

They gave me a scenario based question, asking me how I would design a python based backend that can handle high concurrency issue associated with their website now that it has become super popular (especially when new chapters are released every Sunday at 3PM UTC).

To me, one of the most difficult steps in the interview process was Culture and Values call. One of the challenging questions was: How do you cope with production issues as a team player/driver and what/how do you learn from it?
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Principal Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Backbase

3.1
Jul 14, 2022

To me, one of the most difficult steps in the interview process was Culture and Values call. One of the challenging questions was: How do you cope with production issues as a team player/driver and what/how do you learn from it?

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