I was contacted by HR in response to my CV placed on a job board with the note that the company were looking for candidates with my skills. Upon being invited to a 'assessment evening', I was not given any flexibility on different time slots and had to wait more than 2 weeks for an interview which was scheduled only on a Tuesday afternoon from 6-8pm. The assessment evening was split into multiple sections including 2 interviews and a case study. I was placed into a small meeting room which was hot and stuffy and went through two 45 min competency based interviews. The first interview was with a HR representative which was thorough and structured and focused on competency, experience and skills. After the first interview, I was left alone in the room for 15 minutes before the 2nd interview with a practice lead. This meeting was very unstructured and informal with the interviewer focusing on my experience from 10 years ago and not my most recent experience. This proved to be quite unproductive during the interview. After the interview, I was left in the room for another 10 minutes before being escorted out of the building and told no case study would be taking place given they had no more interviewers to conduct the case study. The manner in which this was executed was quite unprofessional and confusing. The next day I received feedback regarding my interview and told I did not have correct subject matter expertise for the practice they were hiring for although this was clear in my CV to begin with. This left me feeling that Capco requires more efficient screening of candidates and not waste their time.

It started with a 30 minutes session with the HR, then a 1hr technical interview and finally a 45 minutes face 2 face interview at the Capco office. Overall I had a really positive experience. The whole process took about 1 month and the technical interview was focused on what actually matters for the role, with no trick questions or curveballs. I especially enjoyed the face-to-face interview because it didn't feel like a typical interview. It was more like a relaxed technical and behavioural conversation you'd have with a colleague, which made it easy to be myself.