Klarna Manager Engineering interview questions

Screening call with a recruiter who was plainly reading from a checklist of buzzwords they wanted to hear the candidate parrot back - e.g. TDD, back end, front end. I don't expect the screening recruiter to be an expert, but they should be able to conduct a screening call without it feeling like a robot is performing the interview. I was told on the call I would proceed to the next step - which consisted of a "logic" pattern matching test. Here comes the interesting part - you need to score at least 13/18 to proceed to the next stage. Unfortunately I opted to leave the process at this stage. The negative company reviews here coupled with a recruitment team that thinks there is a correlation between a pattern matching test and exceptional people managers and technical leaders is not one that is worth spending your time on. I'm willing to bet serious money that they don't even have internal metrics that support the cut-off of 13 in terms of great hires versus weak hires. Total pseudo science and should have no place in recruitment in 2019.

The interview process it self was quite lengthy, many interviews, but it was also very thorough and gave me an opportunity to meet many different people across the organisation. That process helped me make a decision and to accept the offer I received. The whole interview process was very professional and it was divided into phone, online (video), and on site interviews. For the engineering position an IQ test (pattern recognition) and coding tests were conducted, all which should be easy to pass for an average engineer. I do have mixed feelings about conducting IQ tests during an interview process, I don't personally mind them. But there are studies done, suggesting that there is no direct correlation between intelligence , analytical and logical think process. Klarna might actually miss out on good candidates by using IQ tests. I'm also impressed by Klarna's recruiter, if all of them are as talented as the person I interacted with that would be awesome.