Hack The Box Senior Software Engineer interview questions

The interview process took ages with extreme loops of waiting (almost 2 weeks). The first round was with the HR as in the most cases right now. Second round was a technical interview that was focus on theoretical stuff around Java and Spring. The gave extreme focus on Webflux what it is , how it works under the hood. They focused also in DB concepts like locking, ACID, isolation level and indexing. In the end they told that they suspected that I use AI in the interview... But I haven't. For me this was the first red flag, cause their justification to this statement was that I was very informed about the Webflux concepts and I answered all the questions... I was being promoted to the third round which was a very demanding code review and patching challenge with on a springboot project as a take home test. It took me almost a week to review it and patch it. Fourth round was the debrief of the project in live session. The guys there weren't so keen on collaborating, rather than trying to let me down and divert me from the right path. While I was explaining my approach , they often interrupt me and asked me irrelevant questions like why I did that in that way , cause the other way is better . While I defend my implementation with pure justification about the trade offs I made and the reason why I made them , they purely focus on how I had run the application and challenge this way too. Ok somewhere there I understood that it's not gonna work and I truly felt a little bit embarrassed with their behavior. Of course after almost 2.5 weeks I received an email stating I need to improve my coding skill. Ok cest la vie...

This was hands down the best experience I have had in my career. I enjoyed every step of it and in the process I found professionals that I would like to work with. First step was with HR department, we talked about my work experience and also about the company and the details for the position. Second step was a discussion with Tech Leads where they assessed my skills and we discussed about the company and tech related topics. Third step was the assessment which I thoroughly enjoyed and put my best foot forward, it surely felt meaningful and gave me the opportunity to showcase my skills and knowledge. Final step was the technical discussion with the Tech Leads on the assessment where we went deeper into code and technical stuff as well as soft skills discussions. I really wish more companies would take note of how important it is to have a hiring process like Hack The Box does. I am really happy and proud to be part of the team!