I sent an unsolicited application and got contacted by an HR 3-4 weeks after that. At the moment I was busy so we agreed to schedule an interview 3 weeks later.

I was interviewed through Google Meet, there was the HR and 3 members of the team I was being interviewed for. The interview consisted of two parts. First I was asked about my previous experience and my expectations, including location preferences. Then the HR left the call and I was presented with a small piece of Java code (~10 lines, operation on a tree-like data structure) for which I had to describe what it does and how it can be optimized. The problem was not that hard but I was a little stressed, so the interviewers had to steer me towards the right solution. In the end they let me ask them questions about the job, and then informed me that there will be a task to prepare offline if they'll decide to move forward with me.

A week later HR reached out to me and said I am rejected. Sadly, I was also told that I will not be considered for the other open positions because "all teams have similar requirements" and I can only try again in half a year.

Do you prefer to work alone or in a team?

There is a UI-related project in your CV, do you feel comfortable developing UI?

Do you prefer working on frontend or on backend?