I applied online. I interviewed at Smart Currency Exchange in Oct 2025
Interview
Farming for free work. The company set an extensive take home task on the understanding that it would be used only for evaluation purposes, and then used two parts of the content on their website. Disgracefully unethical – stay away.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Create a full strategy for a forthcoming change in legislation and a blog post.
Was approached by a recruiter. Quickly arranged a first stage interview with head of people and CPO. Very easy interview with some basic behavioural questions not really assessing leadership abilities or strategic thinking.
A week of silence followed by they are looking for a different “profile”. Pretty poor quality of feedback for this type of role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Provide example where you built engineering teams from “scratch”.
I interviewed at Smart Currency Exchange (Hammersmith, England)
Interview
Call with the recruiter to go over role and experience. Teams/Zoom with the team leader for more detailed chat, go over experience and fit. If they feel you would be a fit, they bring you for an in person interview and to present a case study. If everything goes well, final stage is call/interview with MD.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Job history and experience, how past roles would help with job you're applying.