Contacted by a recruiter, after which a 30 min HR call about general information and expectations took place. I have been assigned a take-home project about Spring Boot. Not a trivial task, spent whole weekend on it in order to submit a good one. No one from N26 contacted me for a week afterwards. Finally my linked-in recruiter started giving me tips about the next interview, I told her "but they did not return yet?", she gets surprised and let N26 know about the situation, only after then I have finally received a confirmation email to tell me I passed first stage.

Got scheduled for the next stage, a phone screening with a couple engineers. I have been asked to code a LeetCode easy level question on phone and after which got asked various questions, and given hypothetical use-cases to solve covering a wide variety of software engineering topics. Overall this interview was a good one and I really enjoyed meeting these people. Not long after the interview I have received an email to schedule the final stage to meet an engineering manager for a chat on google hangouts.

On the day of my final interview, someone from the company contacted me on skype as if I have already passed all stages, so I told him that he is mistaken and I still have to attend the last one yet. This was a little alarming, since this was the second coordination failure. Anyway, I have started waiting for my final interview and 10 minutes prior to scheduled time, I started waiting on the hangouts link I was given. When the time actually came there was still no-one on the other side but I have received a skype message asking me if I was ready for the interview. I have replied "sure", but received no reply from the other side. For the next 10 minutes, I asked several times to both my interviewer and the HR that if everything was OK but got no replies.

So after 15 minutes I finally message this one person who accidentally contacted me the same day, and told him that I have an interview scheduled but everybody is ghosting me, thankfully with his help I received a message from HR accusing me of missing my interview time. Sigh.. I explain them this is not the case, and provided screenshots of me sending messages on time, let them know there is also noone on hangouts link that they have given me. In return they have sent screenshots of not receiving anything so I am guessing this was a communication issue with skype. I mean we were supposed to have the conversation on hangouts anyway but oh well.

Wanting to move on with the process, I have stated it is okay and I would prefer having the meeting now hoping both parties are still interested. But unfortunately after making me wait literally for 50 minutes in total, HR stated me that they are sorry for the inconvenience but the engineering manager is now in an executive meeting and can't make it anymore today. I said okay, and we rescheduled for 3 weeks later.

Fast forward 3 weeks later I finally had a brief meeting with the engineering manager. I did not feel that she was interested at all, whole process felt like we were going through a script. She told me that regardless of the outcome I would be given feedback of my performance in a few days the most. Well this was more than a month ago... It is truly frustrating that I still did not receive any kind of feedback after all the effort I have been asked to put into this. I have even emailed HR once, kindly reminding myself, in the unlikely case that I could have been forgotten somewhere in their process (I mean it has happened twice before). They replied that the process is still going on but will be finalized by tomorrow and I should expect to hear from them by then. Fast forward to now... a month has passed since and never heard from them again...

So dear reader, obviously I have given up on this company a long time ago. However, I hope my experience is useful for someone who is considering to invest the time in N26 interview process. I also share this in hopes of giving some solid clues about the company culture, how well organization and employee oriented they are.

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