I applied online. The process took 2+ months.

There were five stages to this:

• Team lead chat
• 4h take-home
• Take-home review
• System design
• Behavioural

I never got told any of this, and I found out by reading Glassdoor and their site. I went through the whole process. It took a long time. It's always hard to tell, but after each session, I had thought it was mostly OK on both sides. Then at the end, I got rejected, and the feedback was certainly interesting. The technical feedback felt pretty dogmatic. They clearly wanted to see a very specific approach and some strong opinions. Unfortunately, most software engineering problems have multiple different valid approaches, and the optimal one depends on the context and the org. It would be a major red flag if a candidate I was interviewing was insistent on a single best way for everything without knowing what we already do.

The behavioural feedback was just strange. I don't recognise some of it at all. It was also quite rude, about me as a person rather than how I'd answered their questions. Another reviewer called their interviewers arrogant, and I'm not surprised by that. Again, though, I think they are really optimising for someone who already behaves in a specific way, rather than someone who demonstrates solid human behaviours and adaptability. It's not very diverse or inclusive. There's a lot of money being offered here, and I wonder why that is. I wouldn't say you definitely shouldn't apply, but it feels like the process would be a roll of the dice rather than really based on your strengths, so maybe treat it as a gamble. If the experience is representative of the org, I imagine there are some cultural issues too.

Tell me about a time that you couldn't complete a task as agreed.