I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Revolut in Feb 2021
Interview
Exceedingly unprofessional. After a great chat/screen with their recruiter who said she would follow up with a take home assignment - I didn't hear back. When I followed up, I received a template response stating they weren't moving ahead.
In reality I knew it was to do with my need for h1b sponsorship since that was the only part the recruiter had said she would need to confirm. Clearly, the firm is not friendly towards non-us citizen hires.
In the process of networking with employees at the company, I did hear that revolut has had issues with US expansion, where their strategies from other markets haven't worked in the US which creates a very stressful environment for US teams. I heard of several employees leaving due to internal favoritism and toxic executives.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Revolut (New York, NY) in Jan 2022
Interview
Initial phase was a recruiter reach out to schedule an interview, and typical questions about past case examples using your skillsets. If you're a match, you are given a take home competency/IQ style test that is timed. Pending your results, you are sent to a round to do a case study with an operations manager. Prior to the case study, the recruiter followed up to do a sync prior to the case study, and helped answer questions.
In my experience, everything went alright, although there was some lag and rescheduling associated given it was around the holidays. The case study interview was conducted at about 8:30/9:00pm their time, so it did raise some concern on the interviewer's focus and their WLB. Overall, the feedback to me from the recruiter and interviewer was "exceptional" and the case study went very well. After the case study, I was informed that my case was an actual case, my solutions proposed were used nearly verbatim, and they were very pleased with my answers. I was left a bit confused, as about 36 hours later, I received an automated response saying I was not a match for the role. I asked for actionable feedback only to be ignored, and sent another automated "interview survey".
After thinking about the process, I was pretty divided - the initial recruiter was splendid and super helpful, the second recruiter who coordinated the interviews was nearly useless, and the case study interviewer gave very mixed feedback. To be honest, it seemed like it might have been a phantom role given others' feedback on the role - going through a lengthy process just to be removed without reason. Regardless, I'm sure this isn't an experience I'd recommend going through given the time commitment required versus their effort to assure a smooth process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give me an example of a time you implemented a solve for a project/program; what was the issue and how did you solve it? Why did you choose your solution? What were the metric outcomes?
First round was an assignment which tested data analysis skills and the use of python and SQL both. After this the second round was a case study interview where the gave a question and you were expected to structure the levers to solve this question