Software Engineer Interview Experience - Milan, Italy
Process
I applied online. The process took two weeks.
There was no human interaction at all, even after ten hours of work assigned. The company makes you do many trivia-style questions on a web portal. There are actually two phases at least. The first stage has about seven questions, with each one ranging from one hour to one hour and thirty minutes to complete. Then, the second stage had three questions, each taking one hour and thirty minutes. After completing these, they asked for my university transcripts via email. I did not receive a single human touch from this company. I would advise anyone to stay clear of this company if you value your own time.
Questions
There were trivia and logic-style questions. Some were slightly interesting, but most were boring and completely unrelated to software development.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 74 interview experiences for the Bending Spoons Software Engineer role in Milan, Italy.
Success Rate
Bending Spoons's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Milan, Italy is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Bending Spoons's Software Engineer interview process in Milan, Italy.
Bending Spoons Work Experiences
- 5.0It's exactly like on the website!Software Engineer • Current EmployeeMilanDecember 25, 2019Pros: - Great culture - Smart and nice colleagues - Annual retreats in exotic locations - Transparency & fairness - Challenging projects - Good tech stack - Amazing offices with free foodCons: There is a lot of work, sometimes it is difficult to find a good work/life balance. Note that nobody forces you to work long hours, but it is easy to do it anyway.
- 5.0Thriving place to be for impact-driven people.Software Engineer • Current EmployeeMilanJune 24, 2023Pros: As the company is obsessed with impact, you'll have plenty of occasions to prove your worth in high-leverage endeavors. Each line of code must exist to make a real difference, and each unnecessary bureaucratic process is thrown out of the window. Remember those colleagues or classmates that spent hours or days working on diminishing returns efforts or unnecessary code abstractions just to have the core value proposition of their software fail miserably? Out there, loads of tech companies are full of code optimizers and religious wars on how to name certain variables or functions. Here we strive for real impact.Cons: It isn't easy to see the rest of the world in the same way once you glance at this.
- 4.0All the perks you need, but work ethics could use a slight improvementSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeNovember 9, 2022Pros: * Every high tech company perk you can imagine. Amazing unlimited food, good salaries, inclusive people ops programs etc... * Personal development is dependent only on your skills. * Flexible teams and transfersCons: The all inclusive envelope of perks can blur things a bit, since the work relations sometimes have a slight undertone involved in politics and personal interest rather than team/company interest. Often hierarchies that may seem flat, at least to me, would seem skewed in favour of what serves the company at the expense of the working atmosphere.
