Acudí a una entrevista en Wise (Londres, Inglaterra)
Entrevista
I was approached by a recruiter from the company, who explained the role and next steps. I received an email indicating a Pair Programming exercise, with options to schedule it with the team. I chose a time and scheduled it. However, the explanations on the Wise website about PP interviews differed slightly from the recruiter’s email. I tried to clarify this, but the recruiter’s response was unhelpful.
On the day of the Zoom interview, I joined the call and waited over 15 minutes for the other party to join, but nobody joined. I dropped the call and emailed the recruiter, but she never replied.
I had read negative reviews beforehand, but I tried to stay positive and decided to proceed with the first interview. Unfortunately, it resulted in a terrible experience.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
The first screening was mostly about what I had done before.
Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en Wise (Londres, Inglaterra)
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I applied through online and next day got the reply to schedule interview.
HR was very friendly, explained roles and responsiblities for the Enginnering Lead position.But HR not ready to listen my answers
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. Acudí a una entrevista en Wise (Londres, Inglaterra) en abr 2026
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HR is really communicative, and engage well with a post-decline feedback session. The pair programming round had an engaged pairing partner. Subsequent round would have been system design.
I thought the pairing went well, and received feedback at the end of that call that it was better than most senior IC candidates. But ultimately wasn't enough.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Implement a circuit-breaker type solution on hacker rank.
Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en Wise en mar 2026
Entrevista
Engineering Lead —| London | March 2026
Process: Recruiter screen → Engineering Lead interview (stage 2)
The recruiter was responsive and well-prepared. Stage 2 was a conversation with the hiring Engineering Lead covering my background, leadership experience, team management approach, handling underperformers, and motivations for joining Wise. All reasonable and relevant questions for the role.
I came prepared, gave structured answers grounded in real examples from leading engineering teams across regulated financial services — Open Banking, payments modernisation, cloud-native migration. The conversation felt engaged and positive. I was told feedback would be passed to the recruiter and I'd hear about next steps.
I didn't progress. No feedback was given.
This was only stage 2 — I hadn't even reached the technical rounds. Being screened out at this point with no explanation of what fell short is genuinely difficult to process. A brief, honest summary of where the bar wasn't met would have been far more valuable than silence — not just for closure, but to know what to improve.
Wise presents itself as a transparent, mission-driven company. That value should extend to how candidates are treated in the process, not just customers.
The role and team seemed genuinely interesting. I'd still consider Wise in future — but the feedback gap is a real blind spot worth addressing.
