I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at HelloFresh in Aug 2017
Interview
I did all steps online, as I was living in Brazil at the time.
My interview consisted in four steps:
1) Phone interview with HR manager.
Mostly to get to know me better, and also so I could ask questions about the company.
2) Code test to be sent within a deadline.
They sent me a GitHub repository with a task to be done. It was a fairly simple task but it required some time. After that I had to send the resulting code to review via pull request.
A company employee reviewed the code in about a week.
3) Interview with one of HF's directors of engineering.
Mostly to get to know me better technically. Lots of questions about my previous positions and current aspirations.
4) Interview with CTO.
It looked a lot like the interview with the director of engineering, but to be fair the CTO warned me in the beginning that it might happen.
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at HelloFresh (Londres, Inglaterra) in Dec 2017
Interview
Phone interview - applied online for the job, including a cover letter and CV. I was then contacted on the same day to take part in a phone interview later in the week. It lasted for approximately 30 minutes.
I applied online. I interviewed at HelloFresh in Dec 2017
Interview
I went through the first stage of the interview process and then removed myself as a candidate.
The interview itself was pretty normal, just a conversation over Skype with someone from HR. The reason I removed myself is that they were expecting me to do a 3-day design exercise, which would have been to do some design work on their actual product.
As someone who's done design hiring before, you can use other methods to determine if a candidate has good ideas and good design skills. Asking for a three-day exercise is just too much and shows a lack of respect for a candidate's time. It also biases your interview pool toward people who have a lot of free time (i.e. younger people rather than people with families or other commitments).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Look at the Hello Fresh website and tell us one thing you would do differently.