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      Chief Architect Interview

      Dec 12, 2016
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Watertown, MA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at athenahealth (Watertown, MA) in Nov 2016

      Interview

      Two preliminary screening calls (one voice, one video), followed by two deep and probing half day face-to-face sessions (first round technical, second C-level). An alternating sequence of show-us-your-industry-and-regulatory-awareness interleaved with deeper technical problem-solving exercises and past war stories. Reiterated party-lines "Athena considers itself the Google of health-care" and "Athena is in constant change, we've completely re-orged twice in the past year, one of our core values is ability + willingness to keep up with the chaos." Unseen changes and machinations during the 5-week evaluation, resulting in a less-than-100%-forthright "You are our top candidate, we want to move quickly because we know other opportunities may seize your interest," soon fading into "We have another last-minute contender, please wait two weeks," then "We have two more candidates in the queue, please wait TWO MORE weeks," and ultimately "We've decided to go another way." Left a really bad taste in my mouth.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Given a legacy Perl/Oracle-based authenticator, serving 10,000+ entities, which builds granular user-by-user and table-by-table permissions as a series of regular expressions (grant superuser to *billing*, grant report-only to *social*security*, etc.), how would you redesign and seamlessly cut over the system to a more modern industry-standard (deny-by-default, RBAC/ABAC) model without impacting current user experience or requiring systemwide re-enrollment?
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