Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Revolut (Londra, Inghilterra) nel mese di ott 2024
Colloquio
I advise people not to waste their time. I wish I read others reviews before bothering. 5 stages of interview, initial screen with internal recruiter was fine. Coding challenge was a nice challenge. I would say I did it almost all right with TDD and explaining my thoughts and fulfilled all their requirements. Was just core java which I have 15+ years experience. I've interviewed many people and know exactly what is being looked for. The interviewer seemed unengaged for some reason. I just got an email back to say they thought about it and decided no. And said for me to learn their tech stack and come back. I was only tested on java. I also have architected and written full products including pipelines and all the cloud infrastructure as code so have plenty of experience in many tech stacks.
As for the role, they seem to just write java and are quite old school where the engineers don't touch any of the devops side. They have a very basic career path but I would like to thing that would change as they mature as a company.
The main problem with the interview though is I asked for feedback from the recruiter I dealt with and the initial recruiter that reached out to me. Both of which didn't have a level of professionalism to respond.
Maybe worth in a few years when they matured a little as a company
Domande di colloquio [2]
Domanda 1
Initial questions were basic like what is ACID, CQRS, equals and hashcode.
Write a loadbalancer that can only take 10 service registries and no duplicates, make sure it can handle concurrence. Then add strategies for round Robin and random when fetching. They apparently want a TDD approach so do it that way.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Revolut
Colloquio
The experience was disappointing and reflected a lack of professionalism.
The interaction gave the impression of a disorganised or potentially unhealthy work culture.
Answered most of the questions accurately and to the best of my ability.
The interview was initially scheduled for a short time slot. Toward the end, the interviewer asked for my availability and indicated that they would schedule a follow-up session to continue the discussion. However, no further communication or follow-up was received.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 5 giorni. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Revolut nel mese di mag 2026
Colloquio
During the initial HR screening call, the recruiter explicitly stated that Revolut was not hiring for a specific team and that team fit would be determined only after the coding and system design stages.
However, after passing the screening, I received the following rejection message: “After carefully reviewing your experience, we've decided to move forward with candidates whose profiles more closely align with the specific requirements of the role. Please note that this decision is based on current team needs.”
This creates a clear inconsistency in the communication. If team allocation and specific requirements were to be evaluated only in later technical rounds, a rejection citing “current team needs” right after screening appears contradictory. Such practices can lead to candidates investing time in the interview process based on incomplete or misleading information at the early stage.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Revolut (Dubai) nel mese di mag 2026
Colloquio
Interview begins with recruiter calling, explaining you the process
- Coding round
- System Design
- Hiring Manager round
- Bar raiser round
Each rounds are qualifier to another round. I did the coding round and system design, and I was ruled out
Domande di colloquio [2]
Domanda 1
Coding round for the Matrix grid problem for 60 min coding round
First Part of the problem
- Randomly fills a matrix (a * b) with 5 'x' alphabet, reset would be 'o' alphabet
Second part of the problem (minesweeper game on Windows OS)
- Given a matrix fill with 'x', find number of minds adjacent to it
You need to solve both problems in 40 mins to qualify (First 10 mins Introduction, last 10 minutes is follow-up question)
Remember to ask follow-up questions else it mark as candidate isn't proactive in asking questions
2. System Design Round (90 mins)
They ask to design an internal developer portal that establishes a fully automated, version-control CI/CD pipeline at scale.
It basically involves designing the Internal developer, I started with requirements, non-funtional requirements, entities in system, I started with API design but they said it's okay to skip, and high level design.
I started with Component-Based Design where I drawn frontend, CLI, API Gateway, catalog services, ... and all other components of the developer portal
But they were interested in detailed CI/CD pipeline steps. This is where I screwed up; I caught the hint much later in the interview when there were 10 mins left, and I quickly drawn CI pipeline and a CD pipeline, but wasn't able to explain each step in the CD pipeline in detail.
They wanted a more comprehensive Workflow and Operational design of CI/CD pipeline instead of a component-based design of the internal developer portal.
Since I didn't complete the design, I was ruled out of the interview