I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Wise (Cardiff, Gales) in Jan 2022
Interview
For the interview I had to wait two weeks after the application. the interview was only with one person, the one who would be my boss. there was no one else, no one from human resources.
The questions were simple but I was very questioned about my experience with the UK regulation. I am from Latin America, and I have no experience in the UK.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you have experience designing products that adhere to uk regulation?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Wise (Budapest) in Jan 2022
Interview
I'm describing the first technical interview, which is (supposed to be) a pair programming session. It takes 45 minutes and done on zoom & hackerrank.
The task is relatively simple, but the setup is misleading and the timeframe is unnecessarily short. The pair programming felt more like being observed and pushed towards a direction every now and then. I've been communicating my ideas, but never received feedback to those, except if there was an issue with them.
In the code, every missing name was called TODO, from which I assumed all of them would be the same type. Unfinished methods had "TODO... args" attributes, so I assumed all of them would take arrays of the same type. Thanks to these, I started in an entirely wrong direction. Yes, we cleared it up, but the time spent was gone already...
I didn't receive any feedback as to how I did, even though I was asked to provide some. Not really fair.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I had to work on a codebase with a model class, a service interface and a third class with some business logic based on the other two. There were some missing names, logic, etc. The purpose of the interface and the business logic class were provided in javadoc style comments.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Wise in Jan 2022
Interview
I interviewed as a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience, 6 of which in a well established software company.
The journey into wise consists in 5 interviews:
- Intro interview: with recruiter, talking about yourself & so on
- Pair programming interview: 45 minutes interview with one engineer.
- Technical interview: 1 hour 30 min system design interview with two engineers
- Product interview: 1 hour product interview with a product manager.
- Final interview: interview with our engineering lead and a team lead.
I was stopped after the pair programming interview.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
- Define the interface for a value conversion service.
- Implement an example of a conversion query.
- Cache it.
- Yeah, it looks good, but should we do anything else?
- Yes, but don't you think there is something that can be done differently?
(variation of this same question for about 10 minutes)
Yeah, it is not thread safe, you can call it just a certain number of times, what would you do?
There is some feature in the language, but I'm trying to see what you think.