I sat my 'live coding' interview a week ago and still have not been told if I have passed or not.

My experience during the first round interview was good. I was caught a little off guard by being asked some technical questions during this round, but I assume that is by design. I was then invited to book a live coding interview, along with instructions on how best to prepare and the expected coding environment that needed to be set up and working prior to the interview starting. All very professional; I was fairly impressed.

The live coding interview was okay. They put a large emphasis on using TDD, but also completing the task to a production quality. These two concepts do work a bit against each other when you have such a small amount of time. For example, for a production-quality function, I would (and did) spend a lot of time validating the input to the function. Eventually, the interviewer did tell me not to worry anymore with input validation, but by then I had wasted a bunch of time. The interviewer did not provide me with any kind of requirements, which again goes against the time factor by having to build my own set of requirements by asking questions or coding in the wrong direction for some time.

My real issues started after the live coding interview. My expectations for when I would know if I passed the interview or not were set at the end of the interview. My interviewer thanked me for attending and told me that he would let the recruiter know straight away.

The next day, I sent an email to the Revolut recruiter asking about the result. I received nothing back for another two days. I was told the recruiter would ask about the result and get back to me as soon as possible. After another day waiting, I sent another email to which I still haven't received a response.

I have been polite and have asked about when I could expect to hear the result of my interview, so as to correctly set my clearly non-realistic expectations of the timeline. I have had little to no response from Revolut, and the professionalism and preparation I afforded them has not been reciprocated at all.

I can now only assume that I did not pass the interview and have simply been tossed aside. I hope I simply fell through some kind of internal process and this is not how they treat people and conduct their business.

Live coding: write a URL shortener in Java using TDD.