I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Anomali in Aug 2025
Interview
I had an interview with the CTO. It was a bad experience. I’d read reviews saying he was rude, and they were right. He wasn’t supportive at all during the interview. His English was pretty weak, and whenever I asked questions about the company, his answers were completely off-topic. Most of the time, he didn’t even seem to understand what I was asking, especially when I asked about the company's PROJECT. "PROJECT" may not be in his English library
He gave me an SQL question that was easy to misunderstand. Instead of explaining it better or giving an example, he just stopped the interview and told me I wasn’t good at SQL. It felt so unfair, and I couldn’t help but think working with him would be a nightmare.
The only good part was the recruiter. He was really supportive, and I appreciated that.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Anomali (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Interview
I applied online. The whole process was quick fast. After they reached me out, they provided one or two days for preparation between each round.
1) Online Code Test
- 3 simple questions
- The time complexity requirement is not written, but it is definitely counted.
2) Phone screen
- Very good conversation
- Normal HR chat
3) Panel interview
- I received the invitation email the day before interview. There is a 12-hour time difference, so I have to sleep very late to answer the email.
- Unexpectedly, it splitted into two meetings. two hours total.
- The tech lead was very nice and chill.
- Didn't expect more simple coding tests, so didn't prepare IDE for it, and Better practise Python first
- In the second meeting, there were a lot of questions from different area like an oral exam.
4) Rejection
Overall impression:
- Positive company
- Still growing and many opportunities
- the procedure is still improving
- Relaxing culture
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Choose your programming language for online test:
three questions: Number Array Array
2) Phone screen
- Current situation and plan
3) Panel Interview
- Two sections, one with tech lead, one with tech teams.
a) Tech head
- Introduce yourself
- Simple array coding problem
b) 3 senior tech members
- Another array coding problem (preferably in Python)
- Git commands
- Test frameworks / methods
- Data structure
- Unix commands
- Networking protocols
- Binary search
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Anomali (Belfast, Northern Ireland) in Nov 2018
Interview
Three rounds. First round a short discussion with an HR manager, second a technical interview with the dev team and the last one an interview with the CTO with a short programming challenge.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function that converts a decimal number to binary.
How to list all running processes in Linux?
Shortly explain the logic behind asymmetric cryptography.