Sent my CV in the evening, got a call the very next day before midday, this was the phone screen stage. The recruiter was friendly and described the business and the role. Asked what I currently earned up front, which is never a good thing. At least wait till the process is further along, or even better, only ask what the applicant is expecting. I was then asked to complete their standard GitHub recruitment test, which comprises of 4 simple user stories, nothing difficult about the test. After sending it through I got a response a couple of days later for an interview the following week. Everything was very positive to this point, but sadly it went downhill from there. As mentioned with other interviews, two senior developers interviewed me, they asked a couple of .NET framework based questions and design pattern questions. There are some very big egos at that this company. The developers who interviewed me were very judgmental, expecting you to remember authors names, and when you don't know who they are talking about, they are flabbergasted? No, not the usual people like Robert C. Martin or Mark Seemann, who are great mentors and truly very well known. The developers were trying very hard to ask obscure questions that they knew the answer to, and if you don't know the answer, they would give you a confused look. (The obscure questions are *not* listed in the Interview Questions section) I knew straightaway that I wasn't going to get the job, it was obvious. I've heard a lot of good things about JustGiving and that they are doing a lot of great things technologically, I have no doubt that this is true. Choose who you send to attend interviews very carefully, they represent JustGiving and the picture you are giving to applicants is of arrogance and big egos. Advice, get rid of the arrogant developers with big egos and fast!

By far the best interview I have ever had! They don't care about theoretical stuff, they don't want to you tell them principles or other things. All they are looking for is seeing if they can work with you, have a little knowledge base of TDD to be able to code right there and if they like you. It will be a pairing exercise, to create a little program and along the way they make it harder, to see how you react and how well can you organise your code and improvise along the way. They were super friendly, joking all the time and making me super relaxed, feeling like I'm coding with some friends. And it's not like they're making an effort to do so, because that's how they are in day to day life. And I was asked something that no other company asked me: "Why do you want to come and work here?"