Started with an initial call and then had 1 technical stage which was a code review exercise, and 1 cultural interview. Wasn't very difficult, asked simple questions about your experience. But also didn't provide much feedback afterwards either

I interviewed for a role with Santander Auto Solutions, which is mostly separate from the rest of Santander. The interview process consists of 3 stages: - Screening: a short chat with a person from recruiting, talking about the role, requirements and asking about your experience and interests. It's really just a chat so didn't need to prepare much for this. - Technical interview: starts with a simple coding task in Java that's completed on a shared IDE. It's followed by a bit of discussion around the implementation, potential optimisations and time complexity. This is then followed by some fairly basic questions around Java, databases and Kafka. - Past project: I had to talk about a project I worked on in the past that showed decent breadth and depth of experience. The one downside here is that they wanted me to do it without any visual support (like a presentation, architecture design or whiteboard), so they struggled to understand and I had to strip back the complexity to the basics and by the time they understood some of it the time was up and they were left with the impression that there wasn't much there. This ended up being reflected in the final offer they made which was disappointing. Overall it was a good experience and the recruiter was super friendly and helpful throughout the process.