As per another - Had a request on Hackajob, applied as per usual. Had a follow up to schedule a technical test (quite easily taking an hour or two out of the day). Did it and can say that it was 100% accurate to the requirements. Radio silence for a month, and had a text message saying I'd failed the assessment. Seems this is a waste of time and they don't have a role, but instead of communicating that, you get made to feel incompetent.

The recruiter described a senior engineer position but during the interview it was explained that actually senior is the lead equivalent at Sainsbury's. I had previously raised with the recruiter ahead of time when no lead role was described in the overview of teams and was told the EM holds the tech lead role. The interview itself was fine and those conducting were lovely. Not sure why Sainsbury's wouldn't just call their lead role a lead role thought to be honest.