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When consumers buy goods like shampoo, chocolate, or headphones, it leaves a trace-sales are tracked, and inventory levels change. Our data platform uses deterministic algorithms and AI alike to automatically connect and analyze this data, which is siloed across hundreds of channels frome-commerce to stores, suppliers, and 3PLs all t he way to the brandʼs own warehouses. Our goal is to convert that data into actions that drive business for CPG brands.  \n\"The challenges at Alloy range from building a robust data pipeline that 's able to process terabytes of data per day, to building user interfaces that give you high-level insights but still allow the customer to drill into the details when needed. There is no platform out there that connects the supply chain end to end, and that makes our work exciting-there are no right answers, and a lot of uncharted territory.\"  \n-Lasse Holmstedt, CTO  \nAll engineers at Alloy have the opportunity to work on any part of that stack that interests them. We organize work so that you can hit the ground running, but also support you in learning more about topics you haven't mastered yet. If you are curious and open, you'll be right at home!  \nInterviewing at Alloy  \nEngineering interviews at Alloy typically consist of the following stages:  \n● Intro Screen  \n● Coding Interview  \n● Final Round:  \n○ Coding Interview(s)  \n○ Design Interview  \n● Reference checks  \nEach interview consists of approximately 45 minutes of problem-solving, and about 15 minutes of conversation to get to know you as a person. You will get to meet different people, and hear their perspectives on what it's like to work at Alloy. This applies to all technical roles. Further information is given in the corresponding sections.  \nThe interview process reflects how we do our work. While some of the questions will require you to work through a coding challenge on your own, some of them will benefit from the use of AI. We will share upfront whether AI usage is allowed for each question.  \nAll of the interview questions we ask are directly tied to our actual work – no one will ask you questions straight out of Leetcode! We don't ask trick questions-everything we ask is a real problem we have run into at Alloy, which we hope makes for a meaningful interview experience.  \nThe following sections provide more detail for each step of the interview process.  \nTechnical interviews  \nIn our technical interviews, youʼ ll be live coding via the video conference link in your calendar invite. Because you will be working in a shared online tool (such as a shared code editor), a computer is required.  \nTypically, a couple of interviews focus on programming problems and in another interview youʼ ll work through a software design problem together with one of our interviews.  \nProgramming Problems  \nWeʼ ll provide some context about the problem and will share a link to a live environment that supports Java, Python, JavaScript, Ruby and several other languages. 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