Jumio Interview Questions
& Process

The recruiter reached out and sent over a job description. She asked for my available slots through an online booking system which i provided and she scheduled the interview. Yet, despite numerous follow-ups, I still had no clarity on what this first round entailed. Was it with a hiring manager, technical lead, or someone else? On the interview day, a guy showed up and, with blatant disinterest, tossed me a generic question: "Tell me about yourself." No introduction, no interview format discussion—nothing at all. The first question involved a coding task, even though the job description didn’t mention a requirement for coding skills. Nevertheless, I managed to tackle it. I tried to engage with the interviewer using the FAANG approach—after all, I’m currently at a FAANG company—seeking clarity on the problem. But he displayed zero interest in discussing it; he was only focused on seeing the final code. Next came a system design question. I took my time to explain my thought process. However, this interviewer was on mute most of the time, simply responding with an "OK" at the end of my explanation. There were no follow-up questions, no discussion—nothing. Throughout the interview, I couldn’t tell if I was nailing my answers or if the interviewer was utterly lost in what I was saying. Overall, it was a deeply disappointing experience and a complete waste of time.

Went through an interview via interview vector. First round involved 2 Leetcode easy questions and some basic Spring Boot questions. Second round was with the hiring manager, which was different from other companies. The recruiter said it would be a mix of situational and HLD/LLD, but surprisingly no HLD/LLD was asked. The interviewer focused on Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot questions. I managed to answer about 80% with minimal help. The interview went over by 30 minutes, ending at 1.5 hours. The interviewer stated they were looking for 'GURUS' who could answer everything, implying this expectation even with an average salary. This company's lack of growth is unsurprising.

The interview process had several parts. After an initial HR chat, I had a high-level discussion with a technical manager. This was followed by a 60-minute SWE programming task and then another 90-minute session focusing more on data engineering topics. Even though I was prepped on SQL and system designs, I ended up doing live coding in Pandas, which I hadn't used in ages. This led to my rejection; it felt like a bit of a waste of time, especially since the role title included 'graph', which seemed to be overlooked in the interview.

I was contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn about an opportunity at Jumio in Bangalore. The first step was a preliminary chat with a VP. We talked about designing a Twitter Feed and fundamental Java concepts. Following that, there was a 3.5-hour machine coding challenge where I had to architect a Book Store using Microservices. The third stage involved a panel with a VP and two other senior engineers, covering my machine coding submission, general engineering best practices, data structures and algorithms, and system design. Finally, I had a discussion with the recruiter.