I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Financial Times (Sofia, Sofia (city))
Interview
One round with questions for about an hour and a half with topics - OOP, Go, Java, DB, Cloud, Web, Design Patterns. One round with architectural questions for about two hours.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SOLID Principles, OOP Principles, Microservices - Pros and Cons, AWS Services, DB questions - ACID, CAP theorem, Primary Key, Foreign Key, Indexes, Types of Joins, Denormalization, Go and Java specific questions - inheritance, concurrency, locks. Web - RESTful API, REST methods, idempotency, n+1 problem. Design patterns - Singleton, Factory, Builder, Chain of responsibility
Second interview - http, dns, cdn, cache, load balancers, cache, reverse proxy.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Financial Times in Apr 2020
Interview
Initial call and then a further technical call with the head of the department and some other engineers. Got the chance to speak with most members of the team and the questions covered both security and coding practices
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Financial Times (London, England) in Jul 2021
Interview
Had an initial call with HR recruiter.
Did a take home assessment after that.
Then a technical interview happens where you first solve a problem and unit test then answer technical questions.
Finally a behavioural interview interview takes place.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
questions about security, algorithm complexity,
behavioural interview: "tell me a time when" based