Software Engineer Interview Experience - London, England
Process
I applied online, and the process took 3 weeks.
I applied online and got a response quickly for a call with the recruiter. In the call, I was asked about my experience and was presented the company. I then got scheduled for a Depth of Expertise style interview, where I was asked to discuss my experience with a focus on a challenging project, and was asked technical questions based on this.
I got a response after a few days that I moved to the next round, where I was asked to pick between Live Coding and a Take-Home task. The Live Coding was only available in specific languages, so this made the choice easy for me. I submitted the solution for the task and scheduled for a call with an engineer. My solution was not optimal, so I ended up not passing the interview. I received the response after a couple more days, with feedback included.
The process moved fast, the recruiter was nice and responsive, and I received feedback which was useful. Even though I did not move further, the experience was overall positive. The next stage would have been a System Design and then another Behaviour/Culture Fit one.
Questions
The process was the first project: talk about a challenging project and answer technical questions. The second was a live code or take-home task, where you receive a task and get scheduled on a call with an engineer to discuss it after you submit. The next stages were system design and behavior/culture fit.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 18 interview experiences for the Monzo Software Engineer role in London, England.
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Monzo's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in London, England is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
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Monzo Work Experiences
- 5.0Smart, kind people, encouraged to be both in pursuit of an inspiring missionSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeLondon, EnglandApril 5, 2021Pros: Monzo ticks a lot of boxes for me: - Broad and inspiring company mission ("make money work for everyone") - Challenging problems to solve - Exceptional people to solve them with - Fair pay and generous options - Excellent work/life balance The biggest thing is the mission. There is so much potential for making money work better for people. And doing the hard work so things "just work" for customers is one of our core strengths. Now we're also moving towards profitability, I think we're in for a really exciting few years! I also really value the 1:1 culture. I love speaking with new Monzonauts – especially hearing that the reality of working at Monzo matches up to their expectations 🙌 – but it's equally possible to speak to people like Jonas (CTO) in their office hours.Cons: As a bank Monzo operates in a (rightly) heavily regulated industry. Sometimes that slows us down; it means we can't necessarily do everything we would like, and if something goes wrong, it can be painful to make right. We're also growing up. The core values of Monzo "the startup" live on, but we're a mid-size, systemic bank now. Any change we make can impact over 5 million people. That's amazing when it goes right, but we also have to take a lot of care to make sure it does so. And edge cases now affect hundreds of people! If you want to work on platform challenges, I'd suggest you specifically apply for a role in the Platform team. We have a lot of great tools and abstractions which speed us up working on product challenges, but I know some engineers on product squads sometimes miss lower-level technical problem solving. Some of the reviews on here are pretty mixed. I think some of that reflects the difference between customer support ("COps") and the rest of the team. If you're reading this and considering applying as a COp, I'd encourage you to go ahead and make your own judgement. For sure we've had growing pains in customer support. And some of the benefits might not be what they once were. But we still have huge positive intent, and the very core – including COps getting options like everyone else – remains.
- 5.0Software EngineerSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeLondon, EnglandNovember 22, 2017Pros: You get to work on a product that hundreds of thousands (millions soon) use every day to make their life better. Everything you do matters Incredibly talented/skilled team, lots of opportunities to share knowledge and grow/learnCons: There are no cons 😀
- 5.0GreatSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeLondon, EnglandJune 27, 2025Pros: It is a good place to learn lots.Cons: There are not too many to be honest.
