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      Remote Lead Developer Interview

      Aug 18, 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Equals Group (London, England) in Aug 2022

      Interview

      Two interviews, conducted via Zoom. This company seems pretty immature technically. No unit tests. No DevOps pipelines or practices. Just some inexperienced software developers throwing code at the wall and seeing what sticks. Given their approach, they are probably unaware of how often they break their own previously-working code when adding new features. I checked out the company's finances before interview. They haven't made a profit since 2017-18. When I respectfully asked about this and whether they felt there was a relationship between their current approach and this undesireable outcome, each interviewer I met either expressed surprise that their employer is presently unprofitable or outright denied that was the case. I offered to screen share and show them their own accounts as submitted to Companies House to establish the truth of the matter, but they didn't seem interested in doing that. Also, I know from other reviews on here that all staff had been asked to take a 20% pay cut during covid, and this was confirmed during interview by one of the interviewers. Covid lockdown should have been boom time for any company involved in electronic payments. (Who was using cash during lockdown?) If they didn't realise their employer was unprofitable from All Of The Above, I can only imagine it's because they don't want to see it. Last thing, this role was advertised as "100% remote". Having had the experience of companies lying about this before, I made sure to clarify before interview that there was no expectation to travel to their London office (I live in Scotland, 400 miles away, so it's a dealbreaker if there's any expectation to commute.) I was told there was no such expectation. Yet during interview, interviewers were still asking if I'd travel down "3 or 4 times a year". If I were to take a role requiring onsite presence, I assure you with my experience I'd have no trouble getting one a lot nearer to my home. Why companies play these stupid games is beyond me. It only wastes their own time as well as mine.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Would you be prepared to travel to our London office 3 to 4 times a year?
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Would you be prepared to just write code without unit tests?
      1 Answer
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