Wise

Full Stack Developer Interview Experience - London, England

June 1, 2015

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

I had two on-site interviews, a Skype interview with their lead engineer, and several catch-ups with my recruiter on the phone. I was asked some knowledge questions on JavaScript that required a good understanding of basic concepts like coercion, closures, and post/pre-incrementation.

Questions

Some of the questions were designed to see how quickly I could make sense of obfuscated and complex snippets of code.

I had one design question. I was asked many cultural fit questions.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 5 interview experiences for the Wise Full Stack Developer role in London, England.

Success Rate

20%

Pass Rate

Wise's interview process for their Full Stack Developer roles in London, England is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive40%

Neutral0%

Negative60%

Candidates reported having negative feelings for Wise's Full Stack Developer interview process in London, England.

Wise Work Experiences

A great place to make a difference

Full Stack Developer • Current Employee

Tallinn, Estonia

Pros: A lovely work environment with a nice working culture. Great people that you get to work with.

Cons: Cross-team efforts are not so easy to coordinate, as all teams are autonomous.

A great place to make a difference

Full Stack Developer • Current Employee

Tallinn, Estonia

Pros: A lovely work environment with a nice working culture. Great people that you get to work with.

Cons: Cross-team efforts are not so easy to coordinate, as all teams are autonomous.

A place where you can thrive, if you fit the culture

Full Stack Developer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

February 25, 2018

Pros: At TransferWise, you are given the opportunity to forge your own path, use your initiative, and challenge the ideas of others. Expect your ideas and decisions to be dissected, but always in a constructive way. There is a huge opportunity to learn from the best across many different fields.

Cons: The culture here of autonomy and, some might say, politics can be difficult for some people. Convincing others to buy into your ideas as they try to push their own can be a challenge. In the end, the work produced is of top quality, but sometimes you end up discussing what to do for longer than you should.

A place where you can thrive, if you fit the culture

Full Stack Developer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

February 25, 2018

Pros: At TransferWise, you are given the opportunity to forge your own path, use your initiative, and challenge the ideas of others. Expect your ideas and decisions to be dissected, but always in a constructive way. There is a huge opportunity to learn from the best across many different fields.

Cons: The culture here of autonomy and, some might say, politics can be difficult for some people. Convincing others to buy into your ideas as they try to push their own can be a challenge. In the end, the work produced is of top quality, but sometimes you end up discussing what to do for longer than you should.

Good place to work

Full Stack Developer • Former Employee

Tallinn, Estonia

Pros: Friendly environment. Employees do listen to your opinions.

Cons: Did not find any cons.

Good place to work

Full Stack Developer • Former Employee

Tallinn, Estonia

Pros: Friendly environment. Employees do listen to your opinions.

Cons: Did not find any cons.

A great place to make a difference

Full Stack Developer • Current Employee

Tallinn, Estonia

Pros: A lovely work environment with a nice working culture. Great people that you get to work with.

Cons: Cross-team efforts are not so easy to coordinate, as all teams are autonomous.

5.0
A great place to make a difference
Full Stack Developer • Current Employee
Tallinn, Estonia
March 9, 2020
Pros: A lovely work environment with a nice working culture. Great people that you get to work with.
Cons: Cross-team efforts are not so easy to coordinate, as all teams are autonomous.

A place where you can thrive, if you fit the culture

Full Stack Developer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

February 25, 2018

Pros: At TransferWise, you are given the opportunity to forge your own path, use your initiative, and challenge the ideas of others. Expect your ideas and decisions to be dissected, but always in a constructive way. There is a huge opportunity to learn from the best across many different fields.

Cons: The culture here of autonomy and, some might say, politics can be difficult for some people. Convincing others to buy into your ideas as they try to push their own can be a challenge. In the end, the work produced is of top quality, but sometimes you end up discussing what to do for longer than you should.

5.0
A place where you can thrive, if you fit the culture
Full Stack Developer • Current Employee
London, England, United Kingdom
February 25, 2018
Pros: At TransferWise, you are given the opportunity to forge your own path, use your initiative, and challenge the ideas of others. Expect your ideas and decisions to be dissected, but always in a constructive way. There is a huge opportunity to learn from the best across many different fields.
Cons: The culture here of autonomy and, some might say, politics can be difficult for some people. Convincing others to buy into your ideas as they try to push their own can be a challenge. In the end, the work produced is of top quality, but sometimes you end up discussing what to do for longer than you should.

Good place to work

Full Stack Developer • Former Employee

Tallinn, Estonia

Pros: Friendly environment. Employees do listen to your opinions.

Cons: Did not find any cons.

5.0
Good place to work
Full Stack Developer • Former Employee
Tallinn, Estonia
May 27, 2018
Pros: Friendly environment. Employees do listen to your opinions.
Cons: Did not find any cons.

Wise Interview Questions

Maximal Square

Find the area of the largest square that can be formed within a binary matrix containing only 1s and 0s, where the square's sides consist only of 1s.

ArraysDynamic Programming

Subarray Product Less Than K

Find the number of contiguous subarrays within a given array whose product is strictly less than a target value k. The goal is to efficiently count these subarrays by considering the product of their elements.

ArraysTwo PointersSliding Windows

Design Tic-Tac-Toe

Implement a Tic-Tac-Toe game where players take turns placing their marks. Design the game logic to efficiently determine the winner after each move.

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