I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Revolut (Londres, Inglaterra) in Oct 2024
Interview
I advise people not to waste their time. I wish I read others reviews before bothering. 5 stages of interview, initial screen with internal recruiter was fine. Coding challenge was a nice challenge. I would say I did it almost all right with TDD and explaining my thoughts and fulfilled all their requirements. Was just core java which I have 15+ years experience. I've interviewed many people and know exactly what is being looked for. The interviewer seemed unengaged for some reason. I just got an email back to say they thought about it and decided no. And said for me to learn their tech stack and come back. I was only tested on java. I also have architected and written full products including pipelines and all the cloud infrastructure as code so have plenty of experience in many tech stacks.
As for the role, they seem to just write java and are quite old school where the engineers don't touch any of the devops side. They have a very basic career path but I would like to thing that would change as they mature as a company.
The main problem with the interview though is I asked for feedback from the recruiter I dealt with and the initial recruiter that reached out to me. Both of which didn't have a level of professionalism to respond.
Maybe worth in a few years when they matured a little as a company
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Initial questions were basic like what is ACID, CQRS, equals and hashcode.
Write a loadbalancer that can only take 10 service registries and no duplicates, make sure it can handle concurrence. Then add strategies for round Robin and random when fetching. They apparently want a TDD approach so do it that way.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Revolut
Interview
I went through the first 2 stages. The coding part was a bit weird, you would think that you did everything right, but then they reject you based on some reason like a best practice you did not use in your unit test. Even if you developed a correct solution with concurrency and all!
It seems they try to pick on every single thing NOT to hire. My advice: do not waste your time with this interview process.
However, I see this the oppinion of most people here and developers still go to interviews, probably because of the remote work, most companies require at least hybrid now.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Revolut
Interview
The hiring process is smooth but it is more like the cracking of the tech interview process. The hiring team is helping you through the process, I haven't been involved in that long hiring process before, and also not it system design, not in database sharding processes, etc. If you got the interview invitation and are in the same situation as me, just try to watch some YouTube videos about the areas you are not strong enough and read some articles, maybe how core banking works, etc. I guess, it should be fine to crack the process. I did those after each step I got through so it did not help of course. Good luck.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The 1st is a coding challenge. You are expecting to implement a hash map based solution. The 2nd is questions about threading, database locks, acid, sharding, etc. The 3rd is about system design. Mine was an ATM refill design.