They didn't seem to be clear on what profile they were searching for. Made me go through entire 5-stage process, only to tell me at the very end that they were looking for an experienced Python developer. Funny thing is that I kept telling them throughout the process that I only had python scripting experience. 5-stage process: ===== 1. Initial python screening test ===== Two relatively simple hacker-rank exercises. If you've done a bit of python on hacker-rank, it's straight-forward. ===== 2. Interview with Engineering manager ===== Asked general behavioural questions. Also, some questions on python (to which I responded I didn't know the answer as I hadn't really written prod code in python) ===== 3. Take-home python exercise ===== Exercise asking to create a unique ID generator. Pretty fun, had to be performant and pass a test-suite they had written. ===== 4. Interview with 2 engineers on exercise ===== "MR-like" discussion of the previous exercise. Nice guys, some good comments. Quite fun overall. Mentioned that I hadn't followed certain python style conventions, to which I replied, for the 4 time already (!) that I haven't written python production code. ===== 5. Interview with VP engineering ===== Mostly behavioural questions, primarily related to experience with scaling tech systems. ++++++ After all this, received a generic email "thanking me for my interest" and that "there were better candidates". Had to explicitly ask for feedback twice (!) before they told me they were looking for engineers with python experience. Some feedback for Ebury: please understand what you want before wasting both your and other peoples' time. It's neither respectful to me nor your employees' time.