Revolut Manager - Strategy & Operations interview questions

- Initial 30 min interview with HR. The usual questions on background and motivation for applying. Pretty casual. - Data analysis take home task. This comprised of 2 sections: 1) analysing a rather chunky database on excel, to come up with hypotheses and conclusions to a question. Doesn’t require anything beyond basic excel but time consuming (>5 hours). 2) some questions on SQL. This was optional. - 2nd round interview. Two back to back interviews with Operations managers. Past experience, skills, motivation to reply. Nothing overly technical. - 3rd round interview - Problem solving interview with Operations manager from Australia. Was required to present a problem from previous job and how I solved it. Second half was coming up with solutions to a problem Revolut faced. Similar to a case study interview. 4th/ final round interview - with senior operations manager. More fit bases with focus on teamwork, relationship with former manager etc.

Home task that needs to be solved in 7 days. After which there is a problem solving round. I had read a couple of interviews on glassdoor stating that their interviewer was in a hurry and I was just hoping that something like this won't happen with me. There were a couple of problems with the interview, because of which sadly I lost my chance: 1. Interviewer joined a bit late because of some issue, then he started running through the interview as fast as he could. 2. While solving the problem. from what I have learnt from my case study interview practice so far, that you divide the problem into various buckets and state your hypothesis for each of that. I did that, but while I was stating my hypothesis he said why are you already concluding the problem already. 3. During the course of problem statement, according to him only his wat of approaching the problem was correct, and we just cannot approach the problem by any other mean I guess only because he might have passed the interview due to that approach. Instead he could help the interviewee to let him approach the problem on his own while redirecting him/her when he is stuck. I had so many hopes from this interview and that guy simply ruined it for me. I think I did pretty well on the home task, even though it was a time of pandemic in India and I had lost someone in my family during that week only but I gave my best in that submission and had put my soul and heart. And this is what I had to experience in the problem solving round.