I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at CrowdComms in Mar 2023
Interview
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2-3 weeks. There were 3 stages: 1. First stage interview (a video interview) were you find more about the company, discuss your background an answer some technical questions 2. The coding test 3. The final stage (a video interview) - a system design interview, were I was asked to pick one random feature from their public roadmap and discuss its implementation.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at CrowdComms (London, England)
Interview
The interview process was via zoom. I had two interviews via zoom over a 2 week period with different members of the management team. All arranged via email with the HR team.
From submitting my application to getting a job interview was within the same day. After first interview I got feed back the same day asking for a second stage, they were very keen for a second interview even though they could not meet my salary expectations, still we proceeded. After the second interview I had no reply for 2 weeks, I had to chase twice to be told I am not successful without any feed back as to why.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
This was mostly Informal chat about the company and what they do.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at CrowdComms
Interview
The interview was at Blandford Forum. It took 1.5 hours to get there from the Bournemouth area by bus. Already it was not going to be a good experience.
When arrived at the office I was interviewed by the main angular developer and managing director. There were some casual questions and then moved on to programming questions. After that, I showed them a project of mine in Angular(TypeScript). There were only scathing comments from them in the most condescending manner possible.
In the end, they tried to hurry up the interview as quickly as possible although I wanted to ask them questions they kept saying "we will talk to you soon". They lied straight to my face that they would have a quick chat later and send me a test to work on. I knew at the moment that this was total hogwash, not my first rodeo. I might not the greatest programmer ever but nobody deserves to be treated like that.
The whole interview was about 20 minutes long. I decided not to linger any more since I was about to lose the only bus for the next 3 hours! Thankfully I was lucky. And then took 1.5 hours of the bus ride back home and a total waste of my day.
If you are a Graduate Developer and have no issue with the location, not a bad idea to start your career with. For anyone else, AVOID!