Monzo

Backend Engineer Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom

June 20, 2023

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interviewer was nice, but they were asking quite vague questions about the architecture of the system that I had worked on in my current role. All the feedback said was that the topics I covered didn't match what they were looking for, but it would have been helpful to know what they were looking for.

Questions

How would you handle messages in a queue that aren't able to be consumed because of deserialisation errors?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 14 interview experiences for the Monzo Backend Engineer role in London, England.

Success Rate

43%

Pass Rate

Monzo's interview process for their Backend Engineer roles in London, England is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive57%

Neutral7%

Negative36%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Monzo's Backend Engineer interview process in London, England.

Monzo Work Experiences

Chaotic and overworked

Backend Engineer • Current Employee

London, England

Pros: The workplace features smart colleagues, great tooling, and interesting challenges.

Cons: Favouritism rife throughout the company. Progression is very difficult

Chaotic and overworked

Backend Engineer • Current Employee

London, England

Pros: The workplace features smart colleagues, great tooling, and interesting challenges.

Cons: Favouritism rife throughout the company. Progression is very difficult

Great place to work

Backend Engineer • Former Employee

London, England

Pros: This is one of the best places I've worked at.

Cons: It is hard to find faults in Monzo.

Great place to work

Backend Engineer • Former Employee

London, England

Pros: This is one of the best places I've worked at.

Cons: It is hard to find faults in Monzo.

Seriously exciting

Backend Engineer • Current Employee

London, England

January 30, 2020

Pros: I've had the best time of my career at Monzo. The technical level, specially amongst the more senior engineers is much higher than anywhere else I worked at before, to the point that some of them are industry leaders in their domain. This combined with the high level of trust and autonomy given to engineers has allowed me to greatly develop personally and professionally. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Cons: The usual problems with a fast growing company. Things seem to change before you can get used to the previous state and some people cope better than others.

Seriously exciting

Backend Engineer • Current Employee

London, England

January 30, 2020

Pros: I've had the best time of my career at Monzo. The technical level, specially amongst the more senior engineers is much higher than anywhere else I worked at before, to the point that some of them are industry leaders in their domain. This combined with the high level of trust and autonomy given to engineers has allowed me to greatly develop personally and professionally. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Cons: The usual problems with a fast growing company. Things seem to change before you can get used to the previous state and some people cope better than others.

Chaotic and overworked

Backend Engineer • Current Employee

London, England

Pros: The workplace features smart colleagues, great tooling, and interesting challenges.

Cons: Favouritism rife throughout the company. Progression is very difficult

4.0
Chaotic and overworked
Backend Engineer • Current Employee
London, England
June 18, 2026
Pros: The workplace features smart colleagues, great tooling, and interesting challenges.
Cons: Favouritism rife throughout the company. Progression is very difficult

Great place to work

Backend Engineer • Former Employee

London, England

Pros: This is one of the best places I've worked at.

Cons: It is hard to find faults in Monzo.

4.0
Great place to work
Backend Engineer • Former Employee
London, England
April 22, 2020
Pros: This is one of the best places I've worked at.
Cons: It is hard to find faults in Monzo.

Seriously exciting

Backend Engineer • Current Employee

London, England

January 30, 2020

Pros: I've had the best time of my career at Monzo. The technical level, specially amongst the more senior engineers is much higher than anywhere else I worked at before, to the point that some of them are industry leaders in their domain. This combined with the high level of trust and autonomy given to engineers has allowed me to greatly develop personally and professionally. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Cons: The usual problems with a fast growing company. Things seem to change before you can get used to the previous state and some people cope better than others.

5.0
Seriously exciting
Backend Engineer • Current Employee
London, England
January 30, 2020
Pros: I've had the best time of my career at Monzo. The technical level, specially amongst the more senior engineers is much higher than anywhere else I worked at before, to the point that some of them are industry leaders in their domain. This combined with the high level of trust and autonomy given to engineers has allowed me to greatly develop personally and professionally. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
Cons: The usual problems with a fast growing company. Things seem to change before you can get used to the previous state and some people cope better than others.

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