Hiring Manager Chat Turned Technical, Then a Codility REST API Phone Screen

Earlier I had a call with the hiring manager. I expected the whole thing to be behavioral, but surprisingly it was almost entirely about technical decisions — things like how you'd go from a monolith to microservices, the tradeoffs between the two, and then how you'd go from microservices to a more modular architecture, and how to make those calls. About a week after that call, a recruiter reache…

Shared by a candidate · reported Aug 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.