Call with recruiter. Came across professional to begin with and told me they were recruiting for Fincrime but believes I’m a better fit for Services and would get back to me the next morning at the latest to confirm. 3 days no response and then received a generic automated rejection email. Extremely misleading as the impression I was given was that it was just a matter of which department to assess me for in the next stages. On top of that no feedback could be given. Complete waste of time and extremely disappointing from a company like Revolut.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Revolut (Madrid) nel mese di nov 2025
Colloquio
I made 2 interviews: screening with a recruiter and a live coding one, with Leetcode like exercises without any AI coding assistant. In the coding one they required a very deep knowledge of Python libraries, some of them not common at all in the day to day of a data scientist
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto 3 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Revolut (Dubai) nel mese di nov 2025
Colloquio
Awful. Red flags for a toxic work culture. I met 3 interviewers, all were exhausted. God knows what they were building. Completely drained and engrossed into their own world, asking theoritical to most difficult questions, kind of to reject you. And even if you pass, there is not a good vibe. They pay a penny and expect you to a coder, Ml researcher and Deep learning Gen AI architect working at OpenAI or Google Deepmind ! Shame on your process. No idea it was coming.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
1st round: medium level data manipulation, wrangling 2nd round: probability, maths based coding, complex algorithm questions. 3rd round: Extremely vague system design. I was given computer vision based system design which I did 5 years back.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Revolut nel mese di lug 2025
Colloquio
1. Screening w/ HR, salary expectations, general questions
2. Algos (2 leetcode medium, one DP)
3. ML theory w/ old stuff, SVM, cross entropy derivation etc. Some math "coding" in excalidraw
4. More advanced ML, stopped here
5. ? final discussion / culture fit ?
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Derive MLE, Bayes theorem applied, confusion-matrix questions, classical test that detects well a rare disease and to calculate the risk of having that disease given tested positive