Zopa

Software Engineer Interview Experience

August 15, 2019

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

The process took four days.

Phone call.
Technical take-home, which took about two hours.
Two-hour-ish face-to-face interview.
Invitation to Friday drinks to meet more of the team.

There was no technical whiteboarding. It was an enjoyable interview process overall, with opportunities to meet a lot of the team to ask questions.

Questions

The topics were to explain TDD to a non-technical person and describe a technical project that you're proud of, with mostly experience-based discussions.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 41 interview experiences for the Zopa Software Engineer role.

Success Rate

37%

Pass Rate

Zopa's interview process for their Software Engineer roles is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive56%

Neutral17%

Negative27%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Zopa's Software Engineer interview process.

Zopa Work Experiences

nice culture

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England

Pros: flexible working environment, work from anywhere

Cons: Nothing serious, maybe unclear progress.

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England

Pros: flexible working environment, work from anywhere

Cons: Nothing serious, maybe unclear progress.

Decent place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England

Pros: Smart & driven colleagues. The company has genuine intent to create a great product for its growing customer base.

Cons: It doesn't pay quite as well as other FinTechs.

Decent place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England

Pros: Smart & driven colleagues. The company has genuine intent to create a great product for its growing customer base.

Cons: It doesn't pay quite as well as other FinTechs.

Don't bother

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England

Pros: Inclusive, generally good people there, an increase in pension contributions recently.

Cons: The presented values are just lip-service. Senior management in Tech are toxic. Ex Moon-Pig, who are frankly hated for their poor management style and inability to lead. Risk team has been decimated by staff leaving, over 10 in the last year. Also, they have the worst annual review process you have ever been a part of.

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England

Pros: Inclusive, generally good people there, an increase in pension contributions recently.

Cons: The presented values are just lip-service. Senior management in Tech are toxic. Ex Moon-Pig, who are frankly hated for their poor management style and inability to lead. Risk team has been decimated by staff leaving, over 10 in the last year. Also, they have the worst annual review process you have ever been a part of.

nice culture

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England

Pros: flexible working environment, work from anywhere

Cons: Nothing serious, maybe unclear progress.

5.0
nice culture
Software Engineer • Current Employee
London, England
July 13, 2022
Pros: flexible working environment, work from anywhere
Cons: Nothing serious, maybe unclear progress.

Decent place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England

Pros: Smart & driven colleagues. The company has genuine intent to create a great product for its growing customer base.

Cons: It doesn't pay quite as well as other FinTechs.

4.0
Decent place to work
Software Engineer • Current Employee
London, England
June 27, 2025
Pros: Smart & driven colleagues. The company has genuine intent to create a great product for its growing customer base.
Cons: It doesn't pay quite as well as other FinTechs.

Don't bother

Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England

Pros: Inclusive, generally good people there, an increase in pension contributions recently.

Cons: The presented values are just lip-service. Senior management in Tech are toxic. Ex Moon-Pig, who are frankly hated for their poor management style and inability to lead. Risk team has been decimated by staff leaving, over 10 in the last year. Also, they have the worst annual review process you have ever been a part of.

1.0
Don't bother
Software Engineer • Current Employee
London, England
June 3, 2026
Pros: Inclusive, generally good people there, an increase in pension contributions recently.
Cons: The presented values are just lip-service. Senior management in Tech are toxic. Ex Moon-Pig, who are frankly hated for their poor management style and inability to lead. Risk team has been decimated by staff leaving, over 10 in the last year. Also, they have the worst annual review process you have ever been a part of.

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