Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Planck en nov 2025
Entrevista
Hr call to check initial fit.
System design interview, 1.5 hours. Not complex. Nice people.
On site exercise - 3 hours.
Group lead interview or some other executive.
(And hr call, hr interview and recommenders, as usual).
On site interview, you should bring your own laptop and you can use your own editor and work with LLM tools if you want
Interviewer was nice and instructions were clear
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
1. Service Implementation with Smart Integration Tests
Goal: Implement a simple service that greets a user by name, with robust integration test coverage.
Requirements:
A REST endpoint that returns "Hello, !"
Name can be received either as:
Path variable (e.g., /hello/John)
Or query parameter (e.g., /hello?name=John)
If the name is missing, return an appropriate error (400 Bad Request)
Write integration tests that:
Generate dynamic names (e.g., using UUID/random names)
Test both input methods (path/query)
Ensure the response is correct even when name is missing
2. Add Time-Based Blocking Logic (Smartly Testable)
Goal: Add a rule to block the service between 14:00 and 16:00, in a way that can be mocked and tested reliably.
✅ Requirements:
When the request comes between 14:00–16:00 → return 503 Service Unavailable
Do NOT use LocalTime.now() directly inside logic. Instead:
Abstract time-checking logic into a TimeGatekeeper interface with a method like boolean isAllowedNow()
Implement a default version that checks current time
In tests:
Mock the TimeGatekeeper to simulate allowed/blocked times
Ensure greeting still works in tests (time-blocking shouldn’t interfere with unrelated test logic) and you shold not mock the clock
✅ Also:
Write a unit test for TimeGatekeeper itself
Integration tests should pass even if current system time is in blocked range
3. System Design Question: OCR Over Millions of Images in S3
Scenario:
You have:
A large S3 bucket s3://images-a with millions of images (4–5MB each)
A single machine with limited memory, CPU, and disk
Goal: Run OCR on all images and save results to a second bucket s3://images-b
Constraints: Maximize throughput, support failure recovery, and enable monitoring
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 1 semana. Acudí a una entrevista en Planck (Tel Aviv) en may 2025
Entrevista
First, interview by phone with providing basic information, next design interview. Very bad experience. After resolving everything in design interview they sent standart email saying that after deep consideration, they realized this may not be the right fit at the right time, and decided not to move forward with my candidacy. Interesting, what is right fit for them? This is wast of time
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
the question was to design the system collecting data from different resources downloading .csv files and providing an answer to the user combining all the row data by name and address. It should return the answer within a few seconds