Klarna Solutions Engineer interview questions

Very positive experience all the way through. - IQ test (more on this later) - Phone screen with recruiter - Take home exercise - Rotating group interview At every step they were respectful of my time, and I knew what to expect. Some key highlights - IQ test... people get so mad about this. Just study. They give you the examples and resources. You also have a week to study before doing it. I found plenty of resources online and all it took was doing practice tests a few times to get good at it. I don't think it's a good measure if your ability either, but it sure will weed out anyone who just is being lazy and refuses to prepare. More companies are doing these, just take some time, I spent all of 4 hours preparing for it. - Take home. Implement the product in a sec environment and optionally write up steps. This took me a few hours to do and wasn't too difficult if you've ever implemented and API before. Just take the time and read the documentation when needed -Group. You get to show a power point discussing their core BNPL product. All very standard after that.

Very lengthy, throughout process. Frustrating too. Received a phone call by a recruiter in the UK. Nice chap. He sold me the company as the next big thing in Fintech, a leader in Europe and expanding in the US. First I took a "logical thinking" test online and hit a good score. Secondly, they gave me an implementation assignment. Since I came this far, I thought I should take it. I'm not much of a programmer so I spent about 10 hours on it. I discussed my assignment with the Sales Engineering team.. nice folks. My results were "passable" so they flew me over to Columbus for interview and whiteboarding gexercises. I spoke to the Director of customer service and the Sales Engineering team. For what I could tell I was by far the oldest person around (I'm 43). Very millennial atmosphere. I got drilled for an hour or two.. resolved a logical problem on the board and discussed some payment network flows (and where Klarna product is positioned). The next day the recruiter called me and told me Klarna decided to give the position to an internal resource. That's for the best because by the end of the interview I already knew that Klarna was not the place for me. Too bad I spent 30 hours in the process, including in-transit time, to find that out. The upside is that this interview process made me look at my current job with a fresh and more positive perspective.