I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at HelloFresh (Berlín) in Nov 2020
Interview
Terrible candidate experience, toxic culture, STAY AWAY!
Fear and being beaten up is very much a part of the lexicon!!
It's been one of the worst candidate experiences in my 20+ years career.
The interview was remote and was conducted by a panel of 2 (VP + SVP).
From the outset I was lectured and talked at with one of the interviewers being especially hostile. At the end of the intro, the SVP said the following: if at any point during the interview you want to stop, just THROW UP THE WHITE FLAG and we'll stop.
When asked about their challenges, one of them mentioned bad engineering practices. Then, he continued saying that engineers across the organisation FEAR getting an email from him pointing to problems in their code.
At the end of the interview, the same SVP thanked me for my time saying it is not easy to be BEATEN UP by 2 people for 90 minutes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You will be expected to remember acronyms by heart (e.g. STAR being - situation, task, action, results).
Both of them are CI/CD fanatics (exact quote), so you will be asked loads of questions around this topic.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at HelloFresh in Dec 2020
Interview
The interview process with HelloFresh was well structured and organised. The feedback came quick and the next stages were arranged swiftly. Deborah as the talent contact was clear and fair in all our communications. Very happy overall with the process and the company seems great and multicultural. After much consideration, I was just not at this point ready to relocate to a new country with the current world situation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Recruiter screening
2) HackerRank coding exercise (my choice - alternatively you can choose a take-home exercise)
3) Technical interview
4) Culture fit interview
I had the initial call with the tech recruiter where he asked me about my experience and spoke about hello fresh.After that i received an email stating the benefits and work model and i followed up on that email and after that they never responded . This was unprofessional
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself and your work with the current employer