I applied online on their website at the end of May. After 10 days I received a reply from a recruiter asking me for availability for an initial 45 min call. I filled in a form and got a confirmation that my interview would be 10 days later. By this time we are almost a month after my initial application and other than a few emails with recruiters nothing "real" happened.

I had the video call interview and I got asked about my experience and some questions about web development. Overall it was a nice experience and I believe it went smoothly. A week after this video call I didn't get any response yet and I was told by an insider friend that they had a lot of people applying so I decided to just be patient. After all, I wasn't in a rush to change job. After 20 days I finally got an email saying the interview went well and I was asked to do a take-home exercise.

The guideline was to spend not more than a couple of hours, but I found that a bit weird and misleading as I think spending only 2 hours would not produce a lot to be evaluated so I ended up spending more time. It took 13 days to get a reply from the recruiter saying the exercise was good and they wanted to schedule a follow-up. By this time the whole process started to feel like I was not dealing with a cool challenger bank but a dinosaur big co. After a few days I was told the specific role I applied for was put on hold as it was involving the US market and they realised they wanted to hire locally. Fantastic, but at least I was told there were other Web Engineer roles available if I wanted to move in that direction, and I said yes.

It took a couple of days to tell me that this "move" was accepted by the hiring committee. I was then asked to book another call to discuss my exercise, and that would have been the final interview of this "endless" process. I waited a few days after giving my availability and no response regarding the slot for the interview. In the meantime, ~3 weeks earlier, a competitor approached me and by this time I had all the necessary interviews, and they made me an offer that I decided to accept.

I sent an email to the recruiter saying thanks for everything, but I was cancelling the call and dropping out of the process because I accepted another offer. To be honest I was expecting a response. Given what I went through, I felt that would have been the least they could do to be nice and polite. I didn't receive any reply, and that felt a bit like they were relieved I dropped out of the process. I love the product, but I think this experience was far below my expectations and way worse than other companies. I initially thought I could have been unlucky, but after talking with a few friends recently, I found that all my friends that applied had a negative experience, sometimes much worse than mine. I hope they will fix this process.

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