I applied in-person. I interviewed at Revolut in Feb 2021
Interview
1) Interview with a recruiter: some common questions are asked plus a few simple technical ones.
The recruiter sends all necessary information including the PDF covering steps of hiring process.
2) 1h coding session: here the focus is on discussing the task, implementing it and covering with tests. It is important to discover all possible scenarios.
The task was pretty simple and the interviewer was a well-wishing guy.
3) 1h of tech interview, which actually included 15 minutes for coding task and all other time spent on its discussion and improvement.
The coding task requires a profound understanding and experience with multithreading and concurrency and relational DB optimizations.
I am still not aware of what was wrong with my implementation, as neither deadlocks nor livelocks nor race conditions could happen there.
I suspect, that I simply implemented smth different from what interviewers were expected, but they did not articulated it clearly.
In general, the interviewing process experience is positive.
The only thing I am still wondering is why do the interviewers at the 3rd stage were so focused on concurrency?
Both interviewers at 2nd and 3rd stages said they are using concurrency explicitly only in very rare cases.
Then why a deep knowledge of concurrency is mandatory?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
ACID, concurrency, huge relational DB optimization
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Revolut
Interview
The experience was disappointing and reflected a lack of professionalism.
The interaction gave the impression of a disorganised or potentially unhealthy work culture.
Answered most of the questions accurately and to the best of my ability.
The interview was initially scheduled for a short time slot. Toward the end, the interviewer asked for my availability and indicated that they would schedule a follow-up session to continue the discussion. However, no further communication or follow-up was received.
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Revolut in May 2026
Interview
During the initial HR screening call, the recruiter explicitly stated that Revolut was not hiring for a specific team and that team fit would be determined only after the coding and system design stages.
However, after passing the screening, I received the following rejection message: “After carefully reviewing your experience, we've decided to move forward with candidates whose profiles more closely align with the specific requirements of the role. Please note that this decision is based on current team needs.”
This creates a clear inconsistency in the communication. If team allocation and specific requirements were to be evaluated only in later technical rounds, a rejection citing “current team needs” right after screening appears contradictory. Such practices can lead to candidates investing time in the interview process based on incomplete or misleading information at the early stage.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Revolut (Dubai) in May 2026
Interview
Interview begins with recruiter calling, explaining you the process
- Coding round
- System Design
- Hiring Manager round
- Bar raiser round
Each rounds are qualifier to another round. I did the coding round and system design, and I was ruled out
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Coding round for the Matrix grid problem for 60 min coding round
First Part of the problem
- Randomly fills a matrix (a * b) with 5 'x' alphabet, reset would be 'o' alphabet
Second part of the problem (minesweeper game on Windows OS)
- Given a matrix fill with 'x', find number of minds adjacent to it
You need to solve both problems in 40 mins to qualify (First 10 mins Introduction, last 10 minutes is follow-up question)
Remember to ask follow-up questions else it mark as candidate isn't proactive in asking questions
2. System Design Round (90 mins)
They ask to design an internal developer portal that establishes a fully automated, version-control CI/CD pipeline at scale.
It basically involves designing the Internal developer, I started with requirements, non-funtional requirements, entities in system, I started with API design but they said it's okay to skip, and high level design.
I started with Component-Based Design where I drawn frontend, CLI, API Gateway, catalog services, ... and all other components of the developer portal
But they were interested in detailed CI/CD pipeline steps. This is where I screwed up; I caught the hint much later in the interview when there were 10 mins left, and I quickly drawn CI pipeline and a CD pipeline, but wasn't able to explain each step in the CD pipeline in detail.
They wanted a more comprehensive Workflow and Operational design of CI/CD pipeline instead of a component-based design of the internal developer portal.
Since I didn't complete the design, I was ruled out of the interview
