After applying through a careers website, I was asked to complete a coding test and a prerecorded video interview.

The coding test was pretty easy; I had an hour to solve a given problem and test it. It was unsupervised.

The prerecorded video interview was really easy since they gave me the questions ahead of time: why are you interested in the company, what's your greatest strength, etc.

Once I passed that step, they invited me to a Skype interview. I was told it was with engineers, so I assumed they would ask me to code or at least come up with a way to solve a problem, but they were more general knowledge questions: 'tell me about this thing on your resume,' 'have you ever done unit testing?' etc.

Also things like 'tell us about a book you've read recently on a technical topic,' which I was not at all prepared for.

Also, there were three interviewers crowded around one screen, one of whom had a face mask on and none of whom I could understand clearly. It was not great, and I knew by the end I hadn't passed.

Tell us about a book you've read recently on a technical topic.