I applied through LinkedIn. The process takes three weeks before Christmas. First I receive an exercise to do for my own. It takes a few days to resolve it (Not Complex you need to familiarize with the tools). We set the next meeting a week after I sent my exercise. It was a technical interview around the programming languages and the tools that I use. All was smooth, and the interviewer was friendly. I read the previous review about the company here in Glassdoor, so I worried about how it would. However, it was completely different. The second technical interview with some questions about topics in my profile and problem approaches comes after. The last interview was the behavioural interview. It took 45 min and was just a simple conversation about myself and my hobbies.

First was a phone call and a take home task. I thought the take home task was reasonable, although it took a while - write a client and server in C++ communicating via gRPC and test it using a test harness written in golang. Second was an onsite interview. Was met by two developers at the company in the shared office seating area. The interview felt incredibly awkward, cagey and amateurish. They hadn't prepared in any way, and most likely had never conducted an interview before, so we sat in lengthy silence for 10s of seconds between each question whilst they nervously looked around the room trying to think of the next one to ask. Questions asked were a bit of basic trivia on some C++ concepts such as RAII or about a few bits of jargon they'd spotted on my CV. Second part of the interview with one of the founders wasn't much better. In trying to explain the benefits package, he couldn't remember and told me to look on the website instead. He seem surprised that I didn't want to take a lower salary for equity in his company without seeing the terms/conditions of the equity package. Without trying to sound dramatic this was hands down the worst interview I have ever attended. I am annoyed that I wasted time working on the coding assignment and turning up. I came away with a terrible impression of the company: that these people couldn't run a whelk stall, let alone a supposedly Google/Amazon-beating AI service provider.