I applied online. I interviewed at Bambuser in Oct 2025
Interview
First interview was an introduction and demo of the product which is great. Then interview with manager, a very nice guy. Assignment +presentation with Head of tech and another developer and an architecture discussion with the manager afterwards. Process ended with a meeting with management. A few follow ups with HR and a quick process were appreciated.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What products on the market do you think are especially good at helping users understand whatto do and how to get to value quickly? + How and Why
Pretty straightforward question. They wanted to hear about my last work experience and how I overcame challenges. For my case, I had an interview with the manager, the regional director, and a team member. Some of them asked tough questions about how I would handle similar challenges in real life.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bambuser (Stockholm, Stockholm) in Oct 2025
Interview
I just read the last interview review here and totally can add to that. A complete waste of time
They are slow to reply, and sometimes cancel a meeting 1 day before, after it has been schedule for a week.
Their tech assignment is time consuming, but I did anyway. Matter of fact I did loads more of what they even asked, every optional bullet point on top of the required ones.
Then came the day for the interview with the Engineering manager and some other dev. They asked this to be onsite. I went there under a rainy day just to discover none of the 2 fellas who would interview were there. The HR lady apologized a ton to me, but yeah...disrespectful. I did the interview remotely with them from their co-working space. None of these 2 dudes apologized for not being in the office.
As for that interview stage itself: they kept throwing hypothetical scenarios at me and how I'd go about them, but no matter what answer I'd give they would proceed to say: " but imagine this is not possible, or this is not available or this or that". Nonsensical unrealistic scenarios like "you have to scale a backend with hundreds of millions in traffic data, but you can't use a load balancer or shard your db or use redis etc etc."
They basically wanted me to describe the nitty and gritty of THEIR solution they have in-house. Because that is the sole truth graal on how you build every software solution
Please get better, stop wasting people's time and at least be decent to apologize when you ask a candidate to go to the office and you don't show up
I dodged a bullet on this one, but did waste my time
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Please guess our entire internal solution and describe it in details, then you can get this job
Thank you for taking the time to share, and genuinely sorry for how the final stage unfolded.
I missed communicating that the interviewers wouldn't be able to make it to the office that day – that was my mistake.
I've shared your feedback regarding the technical interview scenarios with the team. While they're designed to explore problem-solving approaches with increasingly constrained hypothetical scenarios, I hear that this didn't come across that way in your experience. We'll take that into account as we refine our process.
Thank you so much for the time and effort you invested, and for your honest feedback.
Wishing you all the best in your new role and beyond.
/Naima
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