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INTERVIEWING AT TIDE

Senior Backend Engineer

At Tide, we strive for a best-in-class candidate experience. We are super excited to be moving forward on
the path to become a Tidean Engineer. We believe preparation is key to successfully navigating interviews.

We want to set you up for success! This guide is a roadmap and support for your upcoming interviews.

CODE REVIEW

The Code Review is a deep dive into your approach to a real world problem. We believe that code is read more often
than it is written and hence decided to incorporate it into our core assessment. As a FinTeach product company, we rely
on exceptionally well-written, testable, scalable and maintainable code to ensure a flawless user experience.

At this step, you will be meeting with your potential peers. The actual Code Review takes ~40 mins, the remaining time is
for Q&As.

You will be given a piece of code of about 50 lines written in Java. This code is written by a very junior developer,
hence, there will be a lot of areas for improvement. You will be doing the code review in a Google Doc, where you will
add comments just like you would on a PR. You can of course ask questions, suggest improvements and alternative
ways to write the code, add links to specs, guidelines, blog, document, add just about anything.

HIRING MANAGER INTERVIEW

The Hiring Manager Interview is an essential part of getting to know your potential manager, learn more about the
day-to-day work life in the team, specific challenges they are looking to solve and address any remaining questions. This is
also a technical conversation about engineering fundamentals and your experience.Consider having a few project
examples that you can describe, including your involvement, contribution, challenges encountered, solutions provided and
technologies used. Make sure you are in a space where you are comfortable discussing a career opportunity.

INTERVIEWERS’ ADVICE

● Read the best practices to follow while reviewing a PR, like this stack overflow post on how to do code reviews better.
You can also go through an extensive resource by Google on how to do code reviews.
● Take your time to look at the code. For the code review itself, you can even stop sharing your screen, mute yourself
and stop your camera. We want this to feel as natural and private as you would be doing a regular CR. If you have
questions, interviewers are there to help.

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