I applied online, and the whole process took six weeks. It was entirely remote.

• Initial Screening: Received an email asking for availability for an initial 30-minute interview. The first interview was a video call with another web engineer. It was a pretty casual chat that felt conversational.
• Technical Test: Received another email asking for availability for a second one-hour technical test. The second interview was to go through a small, simple project and make comments on the code as though you were reviewing an MR.
• Recruiter Call: Received a third email saying I had got through to the final round, which is a behavioral test. I could book a call with the internal recruiter to go through what would be asked in the interview. The call with the recruiter turned out to actually be an opportunity to find out what the lowest salary you'll take is, along with some general recruiter-type questions like what your notice period is. Some vague topics that may be covered in the behavioral interview were given, along with advice to answer the questions using the STAR method. I should also note that the starting salary for the role miraculously dropped £5k from what was initially advertised on the website at this point, which I felt was a little deceptive more than halfway through the process.
• Behavioral Interview: The fourth video call was for the behavioral interview. It featured pretty open-ended questions like "tell me about a time when…" etc.

I received an email with what looks to be a pretty stock rejection response stating that they had decided to choose a different candidate, with a promise to send more detailed feedback and a questionnaire about the experience, but I have not received either. The whole process took one and a half months, mainly due to the gaps between the many interviews. I also thought the whole process felt a little one-way; apart from the initial call, the rest of the interviews felt much less conversational, which can be quite intimidating when you're on the spot.

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