Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Kraken with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 25% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Kraken as a Senior Software Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 27%
Phone interview: 27%
Group panel interview: 18%
One on one interview: 18%
Personality test: 9%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Kraken (Berlin) in Jan 2025
Interview
- Recruiter call
- Intro to role
- What to expect on the next rounds
- Salary expectation and range that might be offered
- Job location expectations
- Take-home coding challenge
- Add features to a bare bone Django app
- Technical interview on coding challenge submission
- Final tech + behavioral interview
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
The take home challenge was to add features to a bare-bone Django app. The focus point was to understand a data file's structure from documentation and build a extendable, maintainable and clean solution
Tech interview round:
- How did you break down the problem?
- Can this (a specific) part be made better?
- Can the processing part be made more efficient?
- Why did you choose to use @transaction decorator?
And general technical discussion on the solution and software engineering in general
Final round:
- Introduction to the team and what it does
- The teams work is different from parts of your major skills, why do you want to move to this area of work?
- General and basic knowledge questions about python and web applications
- Behavioral and technical questions about team-works, engineering practices, leadership philosophy.
I applied online. I interviewed at Kraken (Melbourne) in Jul 2026
Interview
Compared to other tech interview processes I thought it was straightforward: a brief phone screen, take-home exam, technical interview (1 hour, largely of the take-home) and behavioural interview (another hour).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's your approach to using AI in software development?
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Kraken
Interview
Interview process takes weeks even more than a month. First of all you should complete hr questions step and coding challenge. After completing the challenge successfully you should attend a white board session. Scenario was not clear. According the briefing there is no specific solution for the given scenario but actually they expect some specific solution.
Lengthy 4-hour take-home, building a very simple app with Django/Python. Vague negative feedback, stiff & cranky interviewers. The project was easy, albeit lengthy, it makes me think they hired internally.