SingleStore Application Support Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at SingleStore.
SingleStore
Cloud Support Engineer
Mid Difficult Negative experience No offer 7 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Take home Technical screen Technical screen Technical screen Technical screen Group Recruiter call Offer
Interview formats
Technical Technical Technical Technical Technical Technical Group Behavioral
7 rounds total, waste of time because if they have anyone else lined up for the role, they will waste your time by taking 7 rounds of interviews. Initial screening HR round, Manager round, Assignment round, 3 tech rounds, VP round, team manager and again HR
Confirmed questions1 question
- What SQL queries can you write and how do you troubleshoot errors in databases?
SingleStore
Support Engineer
Entry Difficult Positive experience Accept offer 5 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Take home Onsite Phone screen Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Coding Behavioral
It was a pretty standard process for a technical support engineer, several stages over the course of about 1 month: 1. Phone interview with the recruiter. 2. Take home test via email. 3. Onsite interview and chance to meet the Support team in the Portland office. 4. Phone interview with the hiring manager. 5. Onsite interview in the main San Francisco office. I enjoyed meeting the team at each of these stages, and had a lot of fun with the challenges at the onsite interview in San Francisco. Though I would not have tackled these challenges on my own, with gentle guidance and prompting from the interviewers I was able to accomplish each stage, and left feeling very confident in my abilities. Already I could tell the opportunities this job presents for learning and working with fantastically smart team members.
Confirmed questions6 questions
- Customer Simulation: install in non-standard environment.
- How do you determine when to escalate to engineering?
- Technical simulation: provided with a script that constantly performs transactions on the host, how can you adjust its behavior to fully utilize the resources of the host?
SingleStore
Customer Support Engineer
Mid Difficult Positive experience Accept offer 6 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Take home Phone screen Onsite Onsite Offer
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Coding System Design Presentation
I applied last year and they asked me to re-apply this year. The first step was a recruiter call. Normally there's a take-home coding assignment, but I'd already done one last year and they had it on file. Then there was a 30-45 minute phone interview with the hiring manager where we talked about my current role and the support position. After that, I had a phone interview with someone on the support team in Prague. Next up was a 3-hour onsite in Portland. It was a panel interview with the Portland team, and I did a quick troubleshooting project with their product. Then recruiting called to see how I felt about the role and if it was a good fit, and they wanted me to come to San Francisco for more interviews at HQ. The final step was a 3-hour onsite at HQ in San Francisco, another panel with people from different departments. The whole thing took about 2 months. It was longer than usual, but they ran it really well and I always knew what was coming next. Recruiting kept me in the loop and answered all my questions.
Confirmed questions5 questions
- Can you tell me about your experience with distributed systems?
- Can you discuss your background with databases, Linux, and coding?
- Troubleshoot an issue with installing MemSQL on an ec2 instance that doesn't meet the required standards.
SingleStore Application Support Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from SingleStore interview reports.
“Can you write a .lua script to detect a certain error condition across multiple log files?”
Read reports →“Can you modify a Go script to gather specific data from a cluster report?”
Read reports →“Technical simulation: provided with a script that constantly performs transactions on the host, how can you adjust its behavior to fully utilize the resources of the host?”
Read reports →“How do you perform tuning?”
Read reports →“Could you write scripts in a language that you are not familiar with?”
Read report →“How would you troubleshoot issues at the kernel/memory/stack-trace/system call level?”
Read report →“What SQL queries can you write and how do you troubleshoot errors in databases?”
Read report →“What is the role of Support in relation to Engineering, Sales, Product Management, Design, and QA?”
Read report →“How do you determine when to escalate to engineering?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 6 SingleStore interview reports.