I applied online. The process took a week.

• Interview with the recruiter over the phone, followed by a Java technical test received via email to be sent back in a week's time.

The test itself wasn't awful, but the marking seemed to be ridiculous, to say the least. The test is about finding lenders for a given borrower. They failed me because I just matched one single lender for every borrower, and I did so because nowhere in the requirements did it say I should do differently. The requirements were vague. Given they also said it should be done in four hours, I went for the simplest business solution.

It's a shame the marking is not focusing on the tech skills, but on our ability to predict very vague business requirements for a test that should be done in four hours. I thought this was supposed to be a Java technical test, not one about guessing business requirements. Maybe there's a Google syndrome going on, and the current developers are biased to make candidates fail just because they want to feel better about themselves. I am surely never applying again.

Do you know anything about Zopa?