Graduate Rotational Development Program Interview Experience - Farnborough, United Kingdom
Process
First stage: Application.
Second stage: Online technical assessment through HackRank. There were 10 questions ranging from easy to hard. These questions ranged from coding to theoretical. A broad knowledge is required.
Third stage: Technical/competency - first stage interview. The interviewer started with admin-based questions. Then, competency-based questions, situational in particular. The interview concluded with technical questions. These questions were related to the HackRank questions submitted in the prior stage. For example, "explain your thought process which motivated you to come to 'said' solution(s)."
Fourth stage: consisted of two interviews. One was with a product manager, focusing on competence and situational questions. The other was with a lead software engineer, also focusing on competence and situational questions. It also included some light theoretical knowledge of Java.
Questions
Describe a project where you encountered difficulties and how you overcame them. What was the outcome?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Discover Financial Graduate Rotational Development Program role in Farnborough, Hampshire.
Success Rate
Discover Financial's interview process for their Graduate Rotational Development Program roles in Farnborough, Hampshire is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Discover Financial's Graduate Rotational Development Program interview process in Farnborough, Hampshire.
Discover Financial Work Experiences
- 4.0Good life balanceApplications Developer • Current EmployeeFarnborough, Hampshire, United KingdomApril 19, 2024Pros: Developers take time to do things with less pressure. Well plan ahead.Cons: The process is not efficient and leads to less software development work. Software developers waste too much time and energy doing admin work and following up on small things from external dependencies, like the infrastructure team.
- 3.0Too much communication, less workTech Lead • Current EmployeeFarnborough, Hampshire, United KingdomOctober 9, 2021Pros: Good pay for contractors. They use the latest technologies and are trying to move to the cloud.Cons: As a tech lead, there is too much expectation on you. You need to help out the team in every single problem they face. You are responsible for architecture and design, and you are responsible for communication with other teams. Collaboration effort is too much between teams. You are the technical product owner for the team. As a tech lead, you have written features and user stories. Every release, you are responsible to take it to production. On top of it, you have deadline conflicts between teams and poorly designed system architecture you have to fight with.
- 4.0Good Pay, Tricky LocationSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeFarnborough, Hampshire, United KingdomFebruary 23, 2024Pros: Good pay, good culture, I have a good manager.Cons: Farnborough is quite a unique location. It is hard to get to, even if you live in London.
