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We all know that only those who do nothing make no mistakes. Tell us about a memorable fail in production: what went wrong, how you fixed it, and what lessons you learned?

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Are you considering working in Chelyabinsk (office or remote format)?

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Tell about the non-obvious concurrency problems you faced in real projects and how you solved them.

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Do you use any AI tools, such as Cursor or Claude? If yes, for what purposes?

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Imagine a situation: you joined a project where the code has been written for years, there is a lot of legacy, no tests, and everything is barely breathing. Where would you start in such a situation if you need to implement a new feature?

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Why did you enter the market and what is important now when choosing a new employer or project? Is there a fundamental difference — fintech or retail?

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Suppose our microservice needs to call an external API, like a payment gateway, but it suddenly starts to slow down or crashes altogether. How do you usually protect your application from such neighbors to prevent the entire service from failing?

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Will there be a need for reprocessing when starting a new project?

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Regarding salary expectations: what figures do you consider for an offer? Name the minimum and comfortable figures.

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Imagine a situation: the deadline is burning, and you have a choice — make a quick decision or rework the architecture, but spend twice as much time on it. What would you do? Have you had a similar experience?

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