I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Wise (Tallinn) in Mar 2025
Interview
1-) Initial screening call,
2-) Pair programming (tech interview),
3-) System design (tech interview)
Long story short: Wise may be the only company so far in my applicatons that has been:
+ Completely transparent,
+ Had an tech interview that focuses on actual real world problems. Not trivia or leetcode style challenges.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- In screening: goals and career history
- pair programming: a simple cache programming
- tech design: with excalidraw style web graph tool, they asked me to implement design for a specific problem that relies on event driven architecture and data buckets
In pair-programming round i got the question on circuit breaker.
They gave an object oriented skeleton code with some placeholders to fill-up. Evaluation criteria would be mostly on if u knew about the circuit breaker before, if u are able to think and propose multiple approaches, how well you can collaborate with the interviewer.
You need not write syntax perfect code as you need not compile or execute it but the code should be optimised enough with right data structures.
I found the overall experience to be quiet good and easier than FAANG.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About Circuit Breaker that count failures in time based window
Applied online. Received online assessment link. Gave their hackerrank test which had 2 coding questions. All test cases passes. Immediately received automated mail that recruiter will contact you. After few hours got email that they have decided to move forward with other candidates.
That is my application was not even reviewed by the recruiter(which usually takes 1-2 mins) before sending the test link.
Did an oa passed all the questions and had a video recording interview with some Java problem and also 5 behavioral with 3 chances and received a rejection two weeks after it is submitted
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