I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Xapien (United Kingdom) (London, England) in Nov 2025
Interview
Applied online in late October 2025. Got a screening email within a couple days for a 30-min call with their talent lead. She seemed impressed and pushed me to the next round: a Zoom with a senior engineer.
Dude was chill, but the tech questions jumped around like a bad playlist. Basically, their whole stack is just reshaping LLM output data in Go, then slapping it on screen with React + TypeScript. Nothing groundbreaking.
Same day, they dropped a take-home assessment and said "half a day max" (which is already too much to ask) – I smashed it out the next day anyway.
Early November, invited to their office for in-person chats with the manager and a staff engineer. Walked them through my code + did a mock review... and wow, the blank stares and straight-up wrong questions were next level. When I politely corrected a couple things, you could feel the vibe shift hard.
Got the rejection call from the initial recruiter: "You're talented, but not moving forward." I straight-up told her I'd probably dodge that management chain even if they offered.
Burned 3 prime weeks job hunting right before Christmas. Total time sink.
I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Xapien (United Kingdom) (London, England) in Oct 2025
Interview
I want to get the most important thing of the bat, PLEASE DON'T WASTE TIME interviewing here. Xapien is a pure time waster and don't even bother to keep their word. Go where you are respected and are treated with respect.
The first interview was a 40 minute HR first interview. The question were most around my past experience and few tech question areound fullstack feature development.
The HR was very impressed with the answers and immediately said they would love to move forward with me. Right on the call they were asking me, for the next interview, would I be available in 2 days or 4 days and I said either works, just let me know.
For next 1 week I didn't hear back from them at all. And then a generic rejection email which said "After careful consideration we've decided not to move forward with your application". No explanation, nothing. This made no sense after they promised to move me forward on the spot during the interview, only to reject with no explanation on why.
I asked them if they could provide the reason for the rejection and what happened to "we would like to move you forward". They never replied.
I took an hour off from my work for the interview and it was nothing but a complete waste of my time which I will never get back.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Xapien (United Kingdom) (London, England)
Interview
The interview was fairly quick, around thirty minutes or so, and covered a range of relatively interesting questions. They ask on my past projects, cultural fit within the team, personal interests, and other topics meant to get a sense of both my technical background and how I might fit with their work environment.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell us about your key project that you are proud of