I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Upwind
Interview
Very quick interview process. The recruiter and hiring manager were easy to get a hold of and very responsive. The recruiter moved things along quickly, which I appreciate. I had 3 rounds of interview and no take-home assignment.
Applied for a junior position in the Internal Tools team. i was given a task that was constructed 2 completely unrelated topics. in the email i was instructed to choose slots for an interview and sent my task to the team leader. after a couple of days of no reply i send emails to both hr and team lead. no answer. after a week +, a different hr contacted me asking if i was available for an interview. During the interview i presented what i did. i was pretty shocked by the lack of interest that they showed me, like they didn't even care what i did and just wanted the interview to be over. Overall really unfriendly and cold.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a table you and another player play a game. each put a coin on the table, you start first. where do you put the first coin and what is your strategy to win.
I interviewed at Upwind (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Interview
Fairly arbitrary, depends entirely on the interviewer with practically no consistency between them.
A screening interview that is mostly about what you want to work on;
A technical interview that is 50% CV walkthrough and 50% system design of a cloud based scanning tool. This is looking for very specific skills that are not well aligned to the work that will be done.