Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en Revolut en ago 2023
Entrevista
I was interviewed for a Senior Software Engineer position at Revolut. I was rejected after the second step. The first interview was with a recruiter, the communication was not great, as the recruiter accent wasn't the best, made it very difficult to follow. I was asked some technical questions by the recruiter, whom clearly didn't understand if my answers were correct. Second stage was with a Senior Engineer. I've done what was asked, even performed some improvements asked by the engineer. But in the end got rejected, no proper feedback was given, just the ordinary email rejection template. Honestly I feel that the engineer didn't want to hire me for some other reason as everytime, the engineer identified some limitation I was able to solve it. I think maybe in revolut, people are just expected to know the interview in advance and prepare for it like a robot instead of doing it in an iterative way. Still I think the questions are interesting and the problem was interesting.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Concurrency issues, sharding, replication, cqrs, event sourcing, solid principles, acid database characteristics or even transaction isolation levels. Write a thread safe loadbalancer api in a tdd approach.
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. Acudí a una entrevista en Revolut
Entrevista
The experience was disappointing and reflected a lack of professionalism.
The interaction gave the impression of a disorganised or potentially unhealthy work culture.
Answered most of the questions accurately and to the best of my ability.
The interview was initially scheduled for a short time slot. Toward the end, the interviewer asked for my availability and indicated that they would schedule a follow-up session to continue the discussion. However, no further communication or follow-up was received.
Envié una solicitud electrónica. El proceso duró 5 días. Acudí a una entrevista en Revolut en may 2026
Entrevista
During the initial HR screening call, the recruiter explicitly stated that Revolut was not hiring for a specific team and that team fit would be determined only after the coding and system design stages.
However, after passing the screening, I received the following rejection message: “After carefully reviewing your experience, we've decided to move forward with candidates whose profiles more closely align with the specific requirements of the role. Please note that this decision is based on current team needs.”
This creates a clear inconsistency in the communication. If team allocation and specific requirements were to be evaluated only in later technical rounds, a rejection citing “current team needs” right after screening appears contradictory. Such practices can lead to candidates investing time in the interview process based on incomplete or misleading information at the early stage.
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. Acudí a una entrevista en Revolut (Dubai) en may 2026
Entrevista
Interview begins with recruiter calling, explaining you the process
- Coding round
- System Design
- Hiring Manager round
- Bar raiser round
Each rounds are qualifier to another round. I did the coding round and system design, and I was ruled out
Preguntas de entrevista [2]
Pregunta 1
Coding round for the Matrix grid problem for 60 min coding round
First Part of the problem
- Randomly fills a matrix (a * b) with 5 'x' alphabet, reset would be 'o' alphabet
Second part of the problem (minesweeper game on Windows OS)
- Given a matrix fill with 'x', find number of minds adjacent to it
You need to solve both problems in 40 mins to qualify (First 10 mins Introduction, last 10 minutes is follow-up question)
Remember to ask follow-up questions else it mark as candidate isn't proactive in asking questions
2. System Design Round (90 mins)
They ask to design an internal developer portal that establishes a fully automated, version-control CI/CD pipeline at scale.
It basically involves designing the Internal developer, I started with requirements, non-funtional requirements, entities in system, I started with API design but they said it's okay to skip, and high level design.
I started with Component-Based Design where I drawn frontend, CLI, API Gateway, catalog services, ... and all other components of the developer portal
But they were interested in detailed CI/CD pipeline steps. This is where I screwed up; I caught the hint much later in the interview when there were 10 mins left, and I quickly drawn CI pipeline and a CD pipeline, but wasn't able to explain each step in the CD pipeline in detail.
They wanted a more comprehensive Workflow and Operational design of CI/CD pipeline instead of a component-based design of the internal developer portal.
Since I didn't complete the design, I was ruled out of the interview