Bending Spoons

Software Engineer Interview Experience

March 24, 2025

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Process

I applied online. The process took two months.

The interview process for the Software Engineer position consisted of:

Coding Test: The first round involved a set of practical tests focused on logic and problem-solving skills applied to coding.
HR Interview: The second round was an interview with the HR department. During this phase, I was asked questions about my work approach and past experiences.
Technical Interview: The third round was a technical interview where I faced more targeted questions related to coding and problem-solving. This round also included a practical problem-solving test to evaluate my analytical abilities in real-world scenarios.

Questions

Tell us about a past project where you faced challenges and how you overcame them.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 233 interview experiences for the Bending Spoons Software Engineer role.

Success Rate

38%

Pass Rate

Bending Spoons's interview process for their Software Engineer roles is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive66%

Neutral16%

Negative18%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Bending Spoons's Software Engineer interview process.

Bending Spoons Work Experiences

Great place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Fast-paced environment, the possibility to learn a lot, quick, brilliant colleagues, and a lot of challenges. Ability to have an impact right away.

Cons: In some teams more than others, not a 9-to-5 place.

Great place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Fast-paced environment, the possibility to learn a lot, quick, brilliant colleagues, and a lot of challenges. Ability to have an impact right away.

Cons: In some teams more than others, not a 9-to-5 place.

Great company

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Bending Spoons is really a great company from many points of view. You get to work on very hard challenges, with incredible colleagues in an environment that will make you grow very fast.

Cons: Nothing that I can think of.

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Bending Spoons is really a great company from many points of view. You get to work on very hard challenges, with incredible colleagues in an environment that will make you grow very fast.

Cons: Nothing that I can think of.

It's a very good place to work, but not heaven on earth

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: - The company has all sorts of benefits you can think of. - The pay is overall good compared to the European market and a complete outlier in Italy. - The colleagues are amazingly skilled, and mostly very nice people to work with, as people tend to help you if you ask. - The company is pretty much transparent towards its employees regarding major decisions, or at least, it feels like this.

Cons: - very poor work/life balance due to lots of work and very "ambitious" deadlines (to be able to deliver at the pace you are asked to, you will constantly have to put in extra hours, even if you are extremely efficient) - even if the company looks like it has noble purposes, at the end of the day, what it seems to mostly care about is money, so all of the decisions it makes are oriented towards maximizing earnings, with all the pros and cons that result from this - the company puts a lot of pressure on performance, and if you do not perform well, you are let go - senior employees are sometimes so busy that you will lack the opportunity to learn from them - you will have the feeling that some of the people you work with are solely trying to maximize their performances based on the metrics that are used to define performance

It's a very good place to work, but not heaven on earth

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: - The company has all sorts of benefits you can think of. - The pay is overall good compared to the European market and a complete outlier in Italy. - The colleagues are amazingly skilled, and mostly very nice people to work with, as people tend to help you if you ask. - The company is pretty much transparent towards its employees regarding major decisions, or at least, it feels like this.

Cons: - very poor work/life balance due to lots of work and very "ambitious" deadlines (to be able to deliver at the pace you are asked to, you will constantly have to put in extra hours, even if you are extremely efficient) - even if the company looks like it has noble purposes, at the end of the day, what it seems to mostly care about is money, so all of the decisions it makes are oriented towards maximizing earnings, with all the pros and cons that result from this - the company puts a lot of pressure on performance, and if you do not perform well, you are let go - senior employees are sometimes so busy that you will lack the opportunity to learn from them - you will have the feeling that some of the people you work with are solely trying to maximize their performances based on the metrics that are used to define performance

Great place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Fast-paced environment, the possibility to learn a lot, quick, brilliant colleagues, and a lot of challenges. Ability to have an impact right away.

Cons: In some teams more than others, not a 9-to-5 place.

5.0
Great place to work
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Milan
June 28, 2023
Pros: Fast-paced environment, the possibility to learn a lot, quick, brilliant colleagues, and a lot of challenges. Ability to have an impact right away.
Cons: In some teams more than others, not a 9-to-5 place.

Great company

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Bending Spoons is really a great company from many points of view. You get to work on very hard challenges, with incredible colleagues in an environment that will make you grow very fast.

Cons: Nothing that I can think of.

5.0
Great company
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Milan
June 23, 2023
Pros: Bending Spoons is really a great company from many points of view. You get to work on very hard challenges, with incredible colleagues in an environment that will make you grow very fast.
Cons: Nothing that I can think of.

It's a very good place to work, but not heaven on earth

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: - The company has all sorts of benefits you can think of. - The pay is overall good compared to the European market and a complete outlier in Italy. - The colleagues are amazingly skilled, and mostly very nice people to work with, as people tend to help you if you ask. - The company is pretty much transparent towards its employees regarding major decisions, or at least, it feels like this.

Cons: - very poor work/life balance due to lots of work and very "ambitious" deadlines (to be able to deliver at the pace you are asked to, you will constantly have to put in extra hours, even if you are extremely efficient) - even if the company looks like it has noble purposes, at the end of the day, what it seems to mostly care about is money, so all of the decisions it makes are oriented towards maximizing earnings, with all the pros and cons that result from this - the company puts a lot of pressure on performance, and if you do not perform well, you are let go - senior employees are sometimes so busy that you will lack the opportunity to learn from them - you will have the feeling that some of the people you work with are solely trying to maximize their performances based on the metrics that are used to define performance

3.0
It's a very good place to work, but not heaven on earth
Software Engineer • Former Employee
March 13, 2024
Pros: - The company has all sorts of benefits you can think of. - The pay is overall good compared to the European market and a complete outlier in Italy. - The colleagues are amazingly skilled, and mostly very nice people to work with, as people tend to help you if you ask. - The company is pretty much transparent towards its employees regarding major decisions, or at least, it feels like this.
Cons: - very poor work/life balance due to lots of work and very "ambitious" deadlines (to be able to deliver at the pace you are asked to, you will constantly have to put in extra hours, even if you are extremely efficient) - even if the company looks like it has noble purposes, at the end of the day, what it seems to mostly care about is money, so all of the decisions it makes are oriented towards maximizing earnings, with all the pros and cons that result from this - the company puts a lot of pressure on performance, and if you do not perform well, you are let go - senior employees are sometimes so busy that you will lack the opportunity to learn from them - you will have the feeling that some of the people you work with are solely trying to maximize their performances based on the metrics that are used to define performance

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