Was sent a significant home task before getting an opportunity to speak about the role in more detail with someone at Revolut. When I mentioned this to their internal recruiter, a brief hangout was arranged. Completed home task and understood that my response was not what Revolut were looking for, which is fair. Since I was keen to decouple my feedback on the recruitment process from the outcome of my application process, I shared below feedback with the internal recruiter at Revolut immediately after submitting my response to the home task: My thoughts and suggestions are: When to share a task - I’m sure that you receive a large number of applicants for all of the roles you put out there, and might therefore want to use a task to filter out those candidates who might not be really committed to the process. From a candidate perspective, however, it has been challenging to be emailed quite a significant task without even having spoken to someone from Revolut. When I hire people myself, I typically introduce a task much further on in the process, using it as a significant decider between people at a similar level, who've been screened and interviewed previously. Initial conversation - I appreciate that Maria was able to schedule a call with Pawel first, and I really enjoyed my conversation with him. It helped me to get a better understanding of the role and to get a bit more of context about the task. I totally appreciate that there's more time and effort involved in doing an initial screening call first, but as a candidate I find it particularly helpful to set the context right at the start of the recruitment process. Nature of the task - As I hope you will see, I have put quite a lot of time and effort into the task. I’m keen to do it justice and give it my best shot. However, it has feel like quite big investment at such an early stage of the process - it would be really good to get a sense of subsequent rounds and steps.

It was first scrining callThe interview process consisted of an initial screening call with a recruiter. She explained the company, the role, and the next steps in the hiring process. The conversation was friendly and professional, but it seemed that my background may not fully match the requirements for this specific role.