First I was contacted by a internal recruiter. The process to schedule a interview was very confusing and finally the recruiter was gone.
So, I applied by the website and received a hacker rank 90 minutes test. I did 4/5.
After this I was contacted by the same recruiter and this time I had a 30 minutes talk with him, regular HR questions.
He told me that they would like to move on with my process, so they scheduled a Tech interview.
This tech interview was with two guys. They were nice, but not very welcoming. The tech interview had three parts:
1. I had to talk about a project that I did, then they ask me tech questions about that project
2. They did what they call pair programming, but it is not: it was basically write code while they were evaluating you. I think that I was not so good, because I was a little anxious and I was far away to show my best
3. The last part was about my questions
Finally, I received a feedback from the recruiter. Basically he copied the feedback test given by the tech guys. The feedback was very transparent, it was good, and as I was expecting, they thought that my live coding test was not too impressive and that I would fit as a mid level developer, not a senior one.
Then I had to ask to the recruiter if it mean that I was rejected or if I could be a mid level developer.
He told me that yes, I could continue the process a mid level developer.
Then I had another tech interview with a tech guy that was not welcoming at all.
I did another live code testing, he sent to me a java maven project and a pdf with jira “stories”.
I tried to take a look to the project, but the guy started to rush me, even though I watched a video about the Atlasssian process and there they tell you to take all time that you need. I had less than 2 minutes to know the project.
Then I started to code, but I was very anxious again, I think that this kind of live test is very stressful and do not evaluate the candidate very well.
Finally I received a feedback that the guy agreed with the previous one that I could be a fit as a mid level and should apply again maybe in a year.
So, was not clear to me again if I could be hired as a mid level or not. I ask this to the recruiter, he answered me after some hours that he was looking if I could proceed as a mid level, but never received an answer.
After all, I think that my second tech interview was not following the process to be a mid level, as the recruiter said, but instead a second chance tech interview.
After all, I didn’t love the process. I’m applying for Germany positions too and the germany people seem to be much more welcoming and professional.
Anyway, still seems to be a good company to work.