Was contacted by a recruiter directly. Passed a screening, had to wait a week for an on-site interview date to be scheduled. Came to Berlin - confusing office setup, had to wait 10 minutes for someone to meet me. The guy interviewing me seemed disinterested in customers or the product, very opinionated (obsessive) about the emerging technologies. We talked for an hour and it became apparent to me that the guy doesn't care about anything else than just reading and implementing "hot new stuff", whether the project needs it or not. The lack of craftsmanship is actually showing in their app. We discussed all his hot new things on Android and his wish to move towards it, regardless of any rational reasoning or resource constraints. He did not listen to any counter arguments for his statements and seemed like someone I would not hire myself. After saying goodbye I learned that this guy was supposed to be my lead and that his team was supposed to be 3 people, him included. He sent me a take home test which took me 3 days to implement, did not reply to my questions and comments, did not communicate with me afterwards. I have sent the test to them and never got any feedback, besides "the position is already taken". After two more weeks I learned that the "lead" guy actually left his position at N26 and that they still have a couple of "Senior Android Engineer" positions open. Summing up, I would say that in my experience N26 has shown to be unprofessional, dishonest and disrespectful.

Not the worst interview process I was involved in, but definitely with some weird aspects. The process consisted of several parts: - 30 min recruiter call - 45 min high-level discussion of my experience with 2 engineers, nothing too deep - 1.5 h live-coding, new feature implementation in an Android app with small architectural discussions. They messed up with giving me access to the code project template in advance, so instead of 1 hour I had at most 20 minutes to prepare everything for the inteview - 45 min discussion about my experience and work approaches with two EMs and a team lead (?) I passed all the stages before the last one spectacularly (or so I was told :D), but the last one was weird. I was a bit uncomfortable—I believe 3 interviewers is a bit too much. Besides the hiring manager (who might become my EM), there was another manager, plus some kind of tech/team lead. It was unclear who was leading the interview; it felt more like a cross-examination by two managers, and I had trouble communicating with the manager from another team. It seemed like they did not listen to me. Just one example of communication: "Do you have experience mentoring less experienced engineers?" "Well, in my current company, we don't hire junior devs, but in my previous role I mentored a couple of junior developers." "So, are you saying you don't really have experience in mentoring others?" I don't know if that's a language barrier (most of the interviewers throughout the process had quite heavy accents), prejudice, or something else—but I was rejected after this last stage. The rejection itself is some kind of a joke. The recruiter scheduled a call with me a couple of days after the last interview just to say that the feedback was negative, but they were going to discuss my candidacy once again. And then, after a couple more days, they scheduled another call just to say that, unfortunately, it's still a "no." I am quite sure at least one of the calls could've just been an email. And I don't understand the need to give hope that their decision may change. Just don't say anything—say you need two more days to evaluate me and give the final feedback. But maybe it's just me.