Great interview process with friendly people, including a take-home coding exercise and a follow-up discussion call with four engineers reviewing solutions, collaboration style, and technical decision-making together in supportive environment.
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3 stages
2 developers, 2 more developers and finally the head of engineering
Questions around process, time management and thinking about what their architecture might look like.
Everyone was friendly, and the interview felt more like a chat
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tails.com (Richmond, London, England) in Jan 2019
Interview
I had a phone screen with the Engineering Manager, a take home code test and lots of interviews in a row with different engineers, some of them in pairs and some were 1:1.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The coding test was a python+js web application to search for stores, the face to face interviews were about my working experience and my career goals and diagramming some ideas. The interview and questions were very varied and some engineers made me feel quite comfortable. Thankfully, it did not feel like an interview that would be only focused on my knowledge and skills but also on a company culture fit...