Hugh James from Mortimer Sprinks gave me the very interesting job profile and were full of of praise for the company itself. They gave me an coding assignment and we scheduled a telephone interview. The first thing I was really happy with: I had to use GitHub. The telephone interview was one of the best interviews I ever had. There were always this flair of "professional conversation" around although the other side was trying to find out if I am a good match. It was not that kind of interview where you get pre-prepared questions with a very strict pre-defined answer. We wering diving through my CV and discussing a couple of things in detail.
After this interview it took a couple of weeks to find an appointment for a face-to-face interview. The problem was that I am located in the UK at the moment. So we had to find an arrangement to get me over and find a date where the needed persons are available. This was the only "negative" thing I had during the whole process. It really took time.
At the end, we've found a date and I were in the Valtech UK HQ for the first time. This interview was another technical interview. I had to do an hands-on test. I've got a couple of Java classes which I had to implement. In addition, a couple of non-complete unit tests were waiting for my help. During this test I had to talk about my ideas and things I am going to do. My interviewer was always helpful and we had some really inspriring discussions.
In addition to this hands-on test I had to show some architecture overviews of my previous projects. Based on this we had discussions on things like CI or deployment processes.
Once this interview was done, the last interview were scheduled. This was some kind of "does-he-really-fits-into-the-company" interview. We were going through some steps in my CV on a more high-level point of view and my intentions to move to England and work for Valtech. Also a couple questions around methodologies were asked and I had the chance to ask questions regarding organisational things like trainings, conferences, traveling and so on.