I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at LoyaltyLion (London, England) in Sept 2022
Interview
3-4 different interview stages, meeting around 3-5 diff people. Simple enough. Simple tech test. Staff were friendly. Recruiter was easy to work with. Would apply again maybe in the future.
Several stages starting with an internal recruiter call, followed by several technical assessment interviews. I only did the recruiter call, which was a horrible experience; he kept insisting that I'm not good enough for the salary I was asking.
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at LoyaltyLion
Interview
45 minutes - General chat about experience with Head of Engineering and a Senior Developer
90 minutes - Sent a repo and given a short time frame to build an app
30 minutes - Immediately after the previous step to talk through what you did with the same Head of Engineering and Sr Developer as before
60 minutes - QA about workplace and engineering scenarios
Very lengthy process considering that from their feedback they hadn't been interested for a while so it felt a bit like a time drain. Not overly inclusive process setting 90 minutes to build an app. You are given a clear instruction that you should just "do as much as you can" but the feedback was suggestive that you are judged on how much you can complete which leaves a bit of sour taste.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Think of a time when you introduced a bug into a codebase... what was it/how did you fix it?
Think of a time when you pushed for a particular technology to be included in a project... what was it/why did you push to use it/how did it improve the end product?
Think of a time you had to mentor a colleague who was falling behind... how did you go about it?
Think of a time you introduced a new feature into a project... how did it benefit the end product?