I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Lyvly (London, England) in July 2019
Interview
i have been contacted by HR first, then spoke to a girl in marketing and with the company CEO (face to face meetings). Nothing particularly difficult on the interviews, just standard questions. In the end didn't get an offer as they changed their plans but still I enjoyed the experience.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Lyvly
Interview
An initial phone screening followed by an onsite interview. I think the team had just started going through growth and the interview process seemed quite unpracticed. By unpracticed I mean the laptop for the interview was not set up and I had to extract the live coding problem from a wikipedia article. However, these aren't necessarily problems, I'm sure that will smooth over.
The main issue was the the stale feeling and disappointment that, after being made to travel to an onsite, no feedback was given at all and no reason for rejection was given at all, even after explicitly requesting it. Additionally, I had to chase up on the outcome of the interview myself!
Maybe a tech test might help screen candidates before an onsite?
I suspect it's down to the growth and I hope this review might improve the experience for future candidates, but it does make you wonder about the internal feedback culture!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
45 minutes of pair programming on the 'game of life' problem
45 minutes white-boarding - discussing infrastructure I had previously worked on