Beekeeper Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

I applied on their jobs website. The process has 4 interviews. The first one is 45 minutes with an engineer where you talk about your last experience and they ask 2 technical questions. This went well. The second interview is a coding interview on a shared screen with two engineers. One engineer just listened, and the other had trouble guiding the problem-solving. It was a bad experience, and I got rejected after this. The next interview is supposed to be on system design (like designing a search engine or Facebook). The final interview is a full day of working on their codebase to add new features. This process is way too long and they seem to think they are Google. My advice: avoid them!

The worst interview experience ever!!! First half of the interview I was asked some general questions about my previous working experience and expectations from new job. While describing my previous projects and duties I was interrupted by interviewer asking is that a real project or not. So I was ACCUSED OF LYING by the interviewer. I was given a technical question to think and reason about when I started explaining my solution I was CONSTANTLY interrupted by the interviewer asking some questions and not listening to my answers. When I asked the interviewer to describe his current project and duties I got not clear and fuzzy answers so I was not able to understand what the interviewer is working on. Please make some trainings for your employees on how to conduct an interview.

There were 3 phone interview rounds, all with engineers, no HR. The first was a behavioral interview to gauge cultural fit. Next, a coding interview where I had to write and run a simple program, and if time allowed, write tests. This was done on my own IDE to check practical skills. The last one was a technical interview focused on networking concepts like HTTP and general web workings. If I passed these, I was invited for a 'test-day' at the office. This involved spending the day working on a specific task using the company's tech stack, with direct engineer support and the opportunity to ask questions. I really enjoyed this part, it felt better than typical in-house interviews. The day concluded with a presentation of my work and suggestions for improvement. It was essentially a 6-hour hackathon, which my previous experience helped with.