The experience has been in line with the (low) expectations I had
I have been contacted for a Senior Engineer role. Initially i wasn't sure I wanted to invest time in this process because i had heard something about ridiculous recruiting practices and a toxic workplace. Meeting a good recruiter, though, made me change my mind and think "let's give this a try"
The first stage was a live coding session. The problem at hand was quite simple, the critical part of the interview was to show that you write your code incrementally and test every single tiny case. They might also ask you "unconventional" things like to write a test verifying that the result of a method call is random
The second stage was a "tech call" which involved more coding (extremely simple this time) and few questions about DB (isolation, indexes) , Resilience patterns, Deployment strategies etc. I was told to be prepared with a solid theoretic foundation, but when i have tried to go deep into these topics, i have found out that the expected answers were way more practical. This resulted in me wasting some interview time (which is a very important aspect for them because, more than the interaction with the candidate, it seems that they have to fill in a checklist of things you have answered)
The third stage was System design. The interviewer has given me a brief and (intentionally, I guess) very vague description of a product to design. Even though there was some misunderstanding here and there, I was able to discuss all the requirements, propose a solution, answer a few challenge-questions the interviewer asked me by extending the proposed design and describe provided API; in a nutshell, I have managed to finish the task and I felt there were no red-flags detected from the interviewer. Plus, he told me that i was gonna receive a feedback in max. 2 days
After that call, Revolut has disappeared from my life. I have dedicated a lot of time to prepare myself for these interviews (more than it requires TBH) and this is the way i was treated.
Even if for some (unexpected) reason the last round went bad, I won't never know what this reason is, but reading from other experiences here, it's possible that it's not gonna be something i can really work on (apart from just increasing my luck)
On top of that, the "good recruiter" seemed have let me down too because, after being extremely nice, empathetic and supportive, he's just ruthlessly ghosted me
if this is the way they treat their potential employees, i can't imagine what it means to be an actual employee. Moreover, from the questions I have asked to various interviewers, I have tried to understand if they were excited and motivated about working in Revolut and from their body language I got a subtle feeling that the opinion was "I regret to be here"