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One part of the process involved presenting a project I had worked on, followed by a system design discussion around one of Port's challenges. We explored how to design a dynamic integration data-fetching platform where each integration may expose a different API and data model.
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Port.io

3.7★
May 31, 2026

One part of the process involved presenting a project I had worked on, followed by a system design discussion around one of Port's challenges. We explored how to design a dynamic integration data-fetching platform where each integration may expose a different API and data model.

No interesting questions in the entire interview process. I think Remote as company is missing out on huge amounts of talent with this kind of filtering process. Especially as they demonstrated that the coding exercise doesn't matter at all, even if you succesfully completed it. In other words, they are turning down capable experienced elixir devs because they've read "one blog too few".
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Remote

3.4★
Apr 15, 2024

No interesting questions in the entire interview process. I think Remote as company is missing out on huge amounts of talent with this kind of filtering process. Especially as they demonstrated that the coding exercise doesn't matter at all, even if you succesfully completed it. In other words, they are turning down capable experienced elixir devs because they've read "one blog too few".

You decided to use a key-value cache. However, 99% of users are requesting the same information, which creates a bottleneck on a single key. How would you design your cache to prevent this key from becoming a point of contention and ensure better scalability?
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Senior Backend Engineer - Golang

Interviewed at Voodoo

4.2★
Dec 9, 2024

You decided to use a key-value cache. However, 99% of users are requesting the same information, which creates a bottleneck on a single key. How would you design your cache to prevent this key from becoming a point of contention and ensure better scalability?

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