Solicité el puesto a través de una agencia de empleo. Acudí a una entrevista en Scott Logic (Edimburgo, Escocia) en oct 2013
Entrevista
30 minute phone interview, mostly on syntax. Then two rounds of hour long puzzle, programming and design questions in person. I fell down on the design questions, and to be honest, when they explained the answer to one of them I felt that what they were suggesting was quite a messy solution. I got the feeling they were a little too focused on design patterns rather than good design.
It was a bit annoying that they spread the hour long interviews out over two separate days, and then asked similar questions.
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Scott Logic en nov 2022
Entrevista
The interview process was well-structured and efficient. They outlined clearly on their invitation what the interview would entail, who would be joining and how long it would last, which I appreciated as it did not feel like they were trying to catch me off-guard like other companies I interviewed with. It consisted of three stages, two technical interviews and a behavioural one. I found their way of evaluating a candidate's technical abilities very smart. Their questions were challenging but they were aligned with the day-to-day responsibilities of a software engineer. They were focused on how a candidate approaches a problem and not if they remember the syntax of a particular language. Overall, everyone I interacted with left a positive impression on me, and the company's clear communication and friendly approach to the interview process further reinforced my belief that this would be a great place to work. Despite having another offer, I felt confident that this company was the right fit for me.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Coding question with follow-up questions about optimising, logical puzzles, design patterns.
Solicité el puesto por otro medio. El proceso duró 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Scott Logic (Bristol, Inglaterra) en jul 2022
Entrevista
I was approached by the recruiter via Linkedin and overall it took a month to go thru 2 rounds of Technical ,1 round of Manageiral and 1 round of HR before offer was released. I fully enjoyed the process and the recruiter kept me in loop about what's expected from me in each round.
Preguntas de entrevista [6]
Pregunta 1
Write a function to check if a number is the power of 2^ and a positive integer.
Minimum number of times you need to use a scale to find the heaviest of the 8 balls, and what's the mximum number of balls you can weigh using 2 chances. Once I answered they asked the next question as What's the maximum number of balls we can use to find out the heaviest in 3 tries?
Behavious Questions ... How to resolve conflict?, How you provided your expertise to other teams or team members?, What kind of your natural traits have helped you in your work?
Envié una solicitud electrónica. El proceso duró 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Scott Logic (Edimburgo, Escocia) en oct 2021
Entrevista
Two sessions
First was a simple programming problem (around calculating n-size average in an array), a class design problem (constructing a filter object) and a logical problem (divers - both this and the latter have been mentioned in other reviews)
Second was a similar design problem and logical problem, plus some more general behavioural questions.
Interviewers were nice people, I didn't find the process too difficult/stressful and feedback was very swift / detailed.
I was made and ultimately turned down an offer for personal reasons (i.e. not worth going into here, but not driven by interactions with the business).
