I applied in-person. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Versent (Australia) (Perth, Western Australia) in Sep 2022
Interview
I first spoke to a HR/recruiter type of person on the phone and then had an online teams call.
I Had two senior cloud people interview/grill me for an hour, it was strange because I was interested in software engineering, but the questions were all cloud based which I was not prepared for. The interview was very serious, they grilled me around technical questions non stop.
At the end I asked if they thought it might be a good fit and they said they will discuss after the call and they would get back to me in the next few days, but that did not happen.
A week later a different person from the team rang me to see if I was open to an interview. I explained that I had interviewed a week earlier and did not get any follow up as promised and he apologised about problems with their internal systems and let me know that he will follow it up for me.
The next day they sent me a generic response email saying they are not going to proceed. No actual constructive feedback at all from the hour I invested.
It seems like they are a body-shop just looking for senior people who they can make money off from day one without much regard to investing in their staff, like "can we deploy you on a billable project tomorrow with no training, if not, we are not interested"
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Versent (Australia) (Melbourne) in May 2024
Interview
I had a 1.5-hour in-person interview that included a mix of behavioral and technical questions (discussing previous work experience, technologies used, Agile methodology, debugging techniques), followed by a simple 15-minute coding test where help was offered if needed. The interviewers were very friendly and supportive throughout. Up to this point, I would give the experience a rating of over 4.5 out of 5.
However, after completing a take-home code challenge which involved designing a public API, I received an email from their team lead accusing me of using AI assistance for the task without any evidence. The job description did not explicitly prohibit the use of any tools, and I was unaware that using something like ChatGPT was not allowed. They rejected me solely based on the concern that I might have used GPT, which "raised too many concerns for them"(Original message in Email). This decision is incomprehensible to me. I am confident that their team (and any competent developer) would leverage AI tools to enhance efficiency and support their development and testing processes, rather than relying on AI.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Versent (Australia) (Melbourne) in Dec 2023
Interview
I interviewed for the role based Melbourne.
It was a short interview process:
1. Phone interview screening: Standard phone screening with the recruiter to make sure I check all the boxes
2. In-person interview (behavioral/technical): One hour informal, unstructured interview. Spoke about my previous work, future career prospects, interests and hobbies. Did a live technical test.
Overall, it was a very positive interview experience except in the later half which is why I am giving an overall negative rating. It took Versent 2 weeks to get back to me after the final interview despite me sending a follow up email with no response. The recruiter said they offered the role to another candidate which had less experience and was a recent graduate...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: What have you been up to the past year?
Q: What are you looking for in this role?
Q: What are you career aspirations?
