I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Elsevier (London, England) in Apr 2020
Interview
I was contacted by their internal recruiter
They arranged for an remote online interview due to Covid-19
The interview consisted of questions around my experience with Java, Microservices and Kubernetes. The interviewer explained about their current tech stack which looked very interesting! She asked me about what kind of tech I have worked on and my experience with mentoring, code reviews, day to day responsibilities and some technical questions around testing, Java 8, functional programming, etc.
Overall I assumed it went well but I never heard back from them even after sending follow up emails which I found to be highly unprofessional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What technology would you like to learn if given unlimited resources?
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