1. Live coding exercise
2. Behavioural interview with line manager
3. Longer live coding stage
4. Architectural test
Process is pretty straight forward but the 3 last interviews are booked together and you have to do them even if you didn't do well enough to pass the previous one. It can be in 1 day or spread in multiple days.
The coding test was to assign loans "fairly" based on people's preferences. Not very "leet code" like, white fair. The architecture thing is to build a twitter clone. You need to think higher level about the whole architecture.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Build a clone of twitter and pay attention to performance
Thank you for leaving your interview review. We appreciate the time taken to meet with our team and complete the technical challenge.
We're sorry that the outcome wasn't more positive but are really pleased to hear you had a a positive experience overall and we hope you would consider FC again as a future employer.
Your average interview process, ended up being a waste of time as they lowballed me and offered a salary way before my last one. I was applying for a senior level role but what they really mean by that is "tech lead", probably to avoid paying them lead level money. Recruiter was somewhat disorganised.
Thank you for leaving your review and for your time and interest in interviewing for the position of Senior Engineer @ FC. We have a very high bar for performance across our Product Engineering function which unfortunately sometimes means that candidates applying to Senior roles do not perform at the expected level of a Senior in the interview.
The team really enjoyed meeting you and saw a lot of positives in your communication style and coding skill and while we did not formally offer you a role we did want to express that we were interested in your experience at the Mid level should you be open to considering it.
We understand your frustration and know it wasn't the outcome you were hoping for. We'd like to take the time to wish you all the best for the future.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Funding Circle (London, England) in Feb 2022
Interview
1st stage - call with HR rep
2nd stage - coderpad test with two engineers
3rd stage - programming test with two engineers, interview with engineering manager, system design test with two engineers