There was an initial 1-hour phone screening with their functional programming HR. He seemed like a nice guy. This was the only time I got to interact with him, as he then went on paternity leave.
I explained I was in a bit of a hurry, as I was in the final stages of an interview process with other companies. They made me do a kind of IQ test (pattern recognition), which just seemed lazy, but whatever.
Then they booked two Skype interviews to be done on a morning one full week later (!!!) – one with an engineering manager (talk) and another of a technical nature (implementing an algorithm).
By sheer unluck, Skype had constant outages, so I couldn't do the first interview. When I got to the technical interview, they had it all ready for an Erlang code session, which is a language that I have never ever written a line of code with. After explaining that to the interviewer, they scheduled another (Java) interview for a week later. Their HR sent me emails with contradictory dates for the interviews.
I was informed that I'd do the two interviews on that same day. I actually got to do my technical interview, which seemed alright, but it seems they completely forgot about the other one. By that time, I already had a good offer on the table from another company and was pretty much convinced that they are really unorganized and incompetent.
I informed them that I already got another offer and that I did not want to continue the process, and guess what? They never answered back.
Would not recommend.
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The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Klarna Software Engineer (Functional Programmer) role in Switzerland.
Klarna's interview process for their Software Engineer (Functional Programmer) roles in Switzerland is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Klarna's Software Engineer (Functional Programmer) interview process in Switzerland.