I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Deutsche Bank (Berlin) in Oct 2024
Interview
They gave me a test task to write an API service. I wrote it. I came to the interview at the office. At the reception, a toothless elderly woman told me where to go.
The first hour is a thorough interrogation by a front-end developer and a mobile developer. Everything would be fine, except that I'm a back-end developer.
During the interview, a third person appears and asks how I would implement Dependency Injection in complile time. I say that I have no ideas and he flies away indignantly, showing that he is at an interview - for him, this is a waste of time.
Then a fourth appears and says that he will now ask about Kotlin. And asked if I knew Ktor and after my answer that these are frameworks and not knowledge of Kotlin, he showed with his face that he was also disappointed and did not ask any more questions.
Then there is a coffee break in a 60 by 150 cm kitchen with disgusting coffee.
Lastly an hour of practical assignment. They asked me to do the task which was the homework they gave me. I say that I did it already. They didn't know and apologize for the mess.
They say - well, then write us an in-memory cash. I started writing and after 50 seconds one of them said that it would take years and let's not do it. I say that it will take 5 minutes. He set 5min timer on his phone. I finish in 3 minutes and 2 minutes after that his timer rings. What?!
Then the 4th (their boss) appears and I ask him some question about Spring Butt and he says in a passive aggressive manner that "thank God" they don't use it.
In short, there were a lot of negative moments and red flags that I regret not leaving after half an hour, when it became clear that I would never agree to work with such guys.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
How to write a parallel multithreading program in 1 core?
HR interview: covering communication, background, and fit.
Case study: build microservice with REST, external API, JSON, error handling.
Final step in the office: discuss code, architecture, meet team, assess collaboration, culture.
I applied through other source. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Deutsche Bank (Indi, Karnataka) in Aug 2025
Interview
It was good technical interview.
1st round they asked about below points.
1. Utc datetime storing.
2. Springboot concepts.
3. Array vs ArrayList
4. Implement List datastructure.
5. Reverse a linked list.
6. Basic sql questions.
2nd round:
1. Stack vs heap memory related to application level vs thread level.
2. Data jpa entity relationship.
3. RabbitMQ in details.
4. Real time issues and fixes related to RabbitMQ as a producer and consumer.
5. Saga pattern.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Deutsche Bank (London, England) in Feb 2025
Interview
1. 90 mins zoom call to go through 1 behavioral question, 2x technical, The Interview is normal like any other, 2 interviewers, one seem to not really care and the other was engaging.
Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Deutsche Bank with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 50 days to get hired, when considering 10 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Deutsche Bank overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Deutsche Bank as a Senior Software Engineer according to 10 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 19%
Phone interview: 19%
One on one interview: 19%
Personality test: 12%
Skills test: 12%
Background check: 8%
Presentation: 4%
Drug test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
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