I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Metaswitch (London, England) in Dec 2015
Interview
General aptitude tests and questions, with a focus on logic skills. First set of tests were quite straightfoward objective tests. This was followed by more involved logic puzzles and math-centric material.
An aptitude test to be done online and invitation to the HQ for interview. Few personal questions, short presentation. A lot of question on maths, similar to IQ test. Atypical problems to solve. Approximately 5 hours.
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Metaswitch (Enfield, England)
Interview
Filled in very lengthy online application form and did online tests. Invited to onsite interview in headquarters in Enfield. Was in a group of 6 people and started with an employee giving a presentation lasting around 30 minutes.
The assessments started with an IQ test with around 40 minutes to complete - I completed around 60% of the questions before running out of time. We then had 2 subsequent questions consisting of a problem statement and various questions most of which being open-ended, suggest a method for ... etc. The first question was basically about passing messages around a network, efficiency, how to know for sure receiver has received the message. The second was about coding a computer to play a variant of blackjack and what approach/algorithm to use. The whole game tree is too large to evaluate but you can use probabilistic methods to guarantee optimality at each turn.
The interviews were rather mundane, though the interviewers were very friendly. The first interview involved discussing the test and a few extension questions which were relatively straightforward. In the second interview they presented a variant to the blackjack problem which was basically the same but with different values for payoffs.
Overall the experience was mixed, the onsite IQ test was a little out of place, the questions were relatively interesting but the interview discussions and questions were not.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Balls of two colours in an urn, each turn following a protocol for removing and replacing balls, find out the final state of the urn's contents.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Metaswitch (Edinburgh, Scotland) in Jan 2019
Interview
In person technical interview then normal CV interview. First one discussed Computer Science problems and asked you to come up with logic to solve problems. No coding required for the interview process and the problems are not too hard.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Solutions to the 2 generals Computer Science problem
Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Metaswitch with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Intern roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Metaswitch overall takes an average of 20 days.
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