I applied online. I interviewed at Revolut (Londres, Inglaterra) in Oct 2018
Interview
The interview process started off with a video call with a product owner. I felt incredibly positive after the chat, not only about the role but also about the company culture as she mentioned how great the company was, relaxed the environment was and the great company benefits. 'Has a great work / life balance'.
After the call I was assigned a task that I had a week to prepare for. After the completed task I had another video call with another member of the team, who had not seen the task that I had prepared - instead asked me similar questions to that of the first call.
Once completed, I was invited in for a face to face interview with Nikolay (the CEO of Revolut) which was quite intense. Instead of asking me questions about my background and my experience he asked about my work ethic (do you work weekends, long hours currently) and also about my degree education and whether I was in the top 5% of my class - which were totally irrelevant to what I could bring as a product owner based on my work experience. (I haven't been in education for over 10 years and have over 7 years experience in product). We did briefly go through my presentation (for the task that i'd been given) but he had not seen it beforehand and mainly pointed and asked why i didn't use Sketch (i chose to use Balsamiq as a tool).
I left feeling deflated and confused as the atmosphere in the new Canary Wharf office felt cold / uninviting. I had my interview from 6pm-7.15pm and there were still quite a few people in the office ordering take away during my interview.
During this time, i was reading up about the work / life balance at Revolut and about the many heads of departments that had left. There's been a lot of negative press around Revolut and their ways of working and I was incredibly concerned after my interview with Nikolay.
I assumed that was the final stage but was then asked to come in for a fourth stage interview (face to face) with the product team. Which i couldn't understand why this couldn't have happened during the third stage.
I politely declined after reading about the terrible work / life balance(the tyranny from the CEO and general quick firing of people) as well as the questions I was personally asked by Nikolay.
It's worth noting that for some reason Glassdoor mis-represents the overall consensus about working at Glassdoor so please do your research into the CEO before accepting a job here!
Didn't even come back to me even though I spent ages preparing for the interview. The interviewers seemed like they were in a rush to get to another meeting than give attention to the candidate
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Revolut in May 2026
Interview
HR screening > Problem solving session > Product Skills session > Bar Raiser interview. Overall good pricess, with good guidance provided before each interview and flexibility to choose interview times and fit your own schedule.
Started with a 15min screening with the recruiter, they explain the hiring process and the next step was a problem solving interview. Total of 4 steps finishing with a bar raiser interview with the CPO
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They gave a high level prompt about an investment product that stopped growing. You had to ask for data and explain your thought process. The difficulty is that I had to be very specific with the datapoints asked.