Revolut Sr Software Engineer interview questions

1. Recruiter asked a few questions and gave me a test-task 2. Senior developers asked a few questions 3. Team lead asked a few questions 4. Line manager asked a few questions 5. Recruiter send me an offer All the questions were interesting and reasonable, all the people were friendly

I went through 2 steps in their interview process. 1) HR call. HR person was very nice, we had a good conversation. He asked some common HR questions + bunch of theoretical technical questions for screening purposes. 2) Live coding session. The task for live coding was quite interesting, but their requirements are really confusing. Basically they want you to implement something using best OOP practices and TDD in 45 minutes (consider ~35 minutes since you have to spend time for introduction and requirements clarification). The task consist of 3 parts, but they don't tell you about that, they ask you to implement only first part and then ask you to improve it if you managed to finish the first part. For 35 minutes I've managed to implement only 1st part, using canonical TDD + spending time for proper design. Afterwards I got a feedback that I was spending a lot of time on what actually TDD is about (designing your implementation from tests, making them fail, making them green, refactoring etc.) :D. So I didn't even get what is TDD for them then. Just writing some unit tests? So from this second interview step it seemed to me that the rumors about work/life balance in Revolut are kinda true and maybe they are looking for people who can do speed coding during their 8 hours working day and if they can't finish something in time they have to work extra hours.