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Tech team interview breakdown: Section 1: 30 minutes • Introduction: Intro to Form3 and payments. • Code review: Candidate will screen share their code in an IDE of their choice. Review of the code submission, focusing on code tests, design, general code quality and any specific feedback from the code review. Section 2: 30 minutes • Networking: Discussion of network computing covering TCP/IP, HTTP and security. • Remote working: Discussion of past experiences of remote working, challenges, and benefits. • Additional questions (time permitting): Discuss cloud computing, infrastructure as code, distributed systems. Section 3: 30 minutes • Debugging exercise: Candidate will be asked to take part in a simulation and try and debug a problem with the Form3 platform encountered during an on-call shift. • CI / CD: Candidate will be asked to describe how they would build a CI/CD pipe line for their take home test submission. • Candidate questions: Candidate is given time to ask any questions they might have. • CV: General questions from their CV. • Pair programming (time permitting): Quick discussion on how pair programming works at Form3.
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Senior Backend Software Engineer

Interviewed at Form3

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Jan 12, 2022

Tech team interview breakdown: Section 1: 30 minutes • Introduction: Intro to Form3 and payments. • Code review: Candidate will screen share their code in an IDE of their choice. Review of the code submission, focusing on code tests, design, general code quality and any specific feedback from the code review. Section 2: 30 minutes • Networking: Discussion of network computing covering TCP/IP, HTTP and security. • Remote working: Discussion of past experiences of remote working, challenges, and benefits. • Additional questions (time permitting): Discuss cloud computing, infrastructure as code, distributed systems. Section 3: 30 minutes • Debugging exercise: Candidate will be asked to take part in a simulation and try and debug a problem with the Form3 platform encountered during an on-call shift. • CI / CD: Candidate will be asked to describe how they would build a CI/CD pipe line for their take home test submission. • Candidate questions: Candidate is given time to ask any questions they might have. • CV: General questions from their CV. • Pair programming (time permitting): Quick discussion on how pair programming works at Form3.

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