I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Rothesay in Nov 2024
No offer
Positive experience
Average interview
Application
I interviewed at Rothesay (London, England)
Interview
First round, leetcode style question. 45 minutes. Cursory other questions. Like a leetcode medium. Went through a recruitment agency. Recruiter handled the application process, so don't know much about applying directly.
First stage, 3 online Codility tests. Next stage, 1 Zoom Codility test. Next stage, 3 Zoom Codility tests. Bearly a single question about my experience and no other technical questions, just one totally unrepresentative, time-pressured coding exercise after another. Unless they actually sit around racing through contrived coding exercises all day this was a total waste of their time and mine. Or maybe this one-dimensional recruitment policy is a true reflection of one-dimensional work at a one-dimensional company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They didn't ask me anything beyond a cursory "what are you looking for" before diving into the next Codility tests.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Rothesay in Aug 2024
Interview
Codility
2 virtial rounds solving leetcode type problems
Onsite consisting of two leetcode interviews and one pen on paper interview with a business problem that basically reduces to a leetcode problem. Discussing your experience and projects you've worked on in detail during the onsite
Another final onsite where you talk to CTO, tech recruiter, HR and a non business person. The CTO and tech recruiter may ask pretty much the same questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Codility: one dp question,
one implementation question and another question forgot the content but it was fairly easy if you know the fundamentals
The 2x leedcode virtual rounds were a dynamic programming problem and a tree problem respectively. If you solve on time you'll get a follow up on the same question
Onsite consisted of:
1 greedy-algorithm type problem,
1 graph problem,
a pen on paper min heap problem and discussing my experience.