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      Software Engineer Interview

      26 May 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Oliver Wyman (London, England) in Apr 2017

      Interview

      Zeroth phase was a questionnaire spanning professional stuff (language preferences etc) through to film/book preferences. First phase was a simple bit manipulation coding exercise to get familiar with their online IDE. Second phase was a phone screen with a harder algo problem (max sub array, [again]). IDE misbehaved so we had to move to another website. Opportunity to ask questions to get some colour on typical project. Third phase was on-site; 3 hour coding challenge. Should have prepared my BitBucket repository more carefully as burnt through a bit of time getting up to speed with that; on the other hand there's only so much spare time to devote to things like this when you're interviewing at multiple places and they each have their own favourite IDE/code repository etc. Was hoping for a little more friendly help to get over stuff you would expect a colleague to just help you with in a real work situation. Wasn't made to feel particularly welcome; and (bad) rock music was played over their PA during the process(!); didn't feel a particularly happy environment from the outside. Made progress with the exercise, but it only takes a few issues with maven 3rd party library dependencies in IntelliJ (it's not just me, right?) to cost you valuable 10s of minutes and then your time's up. Probably if you've written an html/json stripper once or twice before, you'd ace it. I've not come across that sort of work professionally (thankfully) so was a bit slow to progress. Content for the process to end there; if stripping data out of html feeds is representative of their typical project and their office atmosphere is always like that, it wouldn't be a great fit on either side.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Find the max sub array in a list of ints
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Build an application to strip tube times out of a JSON result feed from a TFL webpage. Present to display the next arrival, update every minute, that sort of thing.
      1 Answer
      3

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      29 Jul 2020
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      Interview

      Online algorithms coding question - relatively simple, questions on complexity. Slightly messy attitude in that they used an ad-hoc code sharing platform requiring some user set up and got configuration. No video. On-site coding interview. (Interacting with online API. Unsupervised. ) This was OK, these interviewers had better people skills too! Technical interview. Very much a compsci knowledge test - so much so that I’d almost say don’t bother without a computer science degree. Three interviewers. Fairly disorganised as members weren’t sure whether they had similar question sheets, who was going to ask what next. Final interview with management. This one was actively hostile. Bizarrely focussed on the problems of a previous company on my CV rather than the positive changes I’d applied to a poor situation. Did not leave a good impression of the company. No feedback afterwards. General impression was a fairly arrogant company, although mixed members.

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      Software Engineer Interview

      19 May 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Oliver Wyman (London, England) in Apr 2018

      Interview

      Face to face for an hour, technical questions around java and payment systems, business knowledge around money transfer describe pros and cons of a built in data structure like ArrayList drawing architecture of a payment system etc felt over-qualified

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      Question 1

      Binary representation of an integer
      1 Answer
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