I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Klarna
Interview
Great experience overall;
Friendly interviewee;
Interesting and challenging tasks;
Great feedback on every step of the interview;
Takes a bit long time to get through all steps;
Compensation level could be a bit more than average on a market;
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
To calculate the number of trees that can be seen through the device with an angle of view
The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Klarna (São Paulo, )
Interview
DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME
A recruiter sent me an email and scheduled a meeting to talk about the company, my motivations and the next steps in the process. I was given a take home challenge via Qualified and was expected to recognize room for improvement and refactor some code. After that, I had a weird "supervised" logic test, a series of images where I needed to select the next pattern.
The process stopped here. I received an email with a generic rejection message. I wasted 3 hours of my time on this weird process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write the code for a smoothie machine.
Refactor some code that aggregates logging data.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Klarna (Madrid) in Jun 2021
Interview
I would definitely NOT recommend starting a process with them.
I was contacted by a recruiter. The process is extremely long, as others have already stated, which does not make sense.
I did 5/6 rounds of interviews, some of them asking very similar questions to previous ones, so the process could easily be shortened and simplified. These included:
1. A first contact call with the recruiter about my experience/career
2. An online assessment to do on your own time
3. An online IQ test (this done with someone watching you in a call)
4. A pair programming/skills technical interview
5. A system design/api design technical interview
6. Behavioural/cultural fit interview with eng. managers
7. Another behavioural/cultural fit interview
The engineering people seemed nice and those interviews were quite fun, spending some time discussing the problems.
Unfortunately, the feeling I got from HR and eng. managers was quite different. They seemed arrogant and extremely pompous about working in the company, as if they were curing cancer with an app.
After two weeks of no response from them I was told my application was going to be "held off" for some months. I asked for more feedback about my performance in the process but I got no response from them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Could you tell me one time you proposed a change based on user feedback
- Design an API service where you get a POST with some user payment data (amount, etc.) and you have to design the system and the request/response structure.