I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Wise (London, England) in Jun 2017
Interview
Phone call with internal recruiter/HR. In-house two hour interview: One hour coding challenge, one hour culture fit with a project manager.
The phone interview was fine and the coding challenge was ok. The two devs were quite professional, so no complaints there.
The last one hour interview with a project manager was ridiculous. He went through my CV judging my company choices and laughing at the type of work i did in one of them, saying it was not really meaningful.
For me, this one hour talking to him completely removed any positive image i had of this company and have since not used their product anymore.
After this, it took them about 2 weeks to get back to me to send the "rejection" email.
The interview process was long but designed to test soft skill along with the usual coding. I felt the interviewers looked more at my thought process and evaluated how good of a teammate I would be in Wise’s environment.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The pair programming round was generic one. They gave a class with methods to be completed.
In pair-programming round i got the question on circuit breaker.
They gave an object oriented skeleton code with some placeholders to fill-up. Evaluation criteria would be mostly on if u knew about the circuit breaker before, if u are able to think and propose multiple approaches, how well you can collaborate with the interviewer.
You need not write syntax perfect code as you need not compile or execute it but the code should be optimised enough with right data structures.
I found the overall experience to be quiet good and easier than FAANG.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About Circuit Breaker that count failures in time based window
Applied online. Received online assessment link. Gave their hackerrank test which had 2 coding questions. All test cases passes. Immediately received automated mail that recruiter will contact you. After few hours got email that they have decided to move forward with other candidates.
That is my application was not even reviewed by the recruiter(which usually takes 1-2 mins) before sending the test link.
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