After being referred by an external recruiter, I had an initial phone screening with an internal recruiter to talk about the company, what I was looking for, remote working etc. I next completed a two-part technical assessment submitting code and documentation for review. I didn't hear back specifically about this, but a video call was scheduled a few days later with three members of the team I was joining. This call went into my previous experience and a wide range of technical questions covering different technologies I had worked with and some that I hadn't. I was next invited to the Edinburgh office (expenses paid) for one day for what was described as a "chat" by the external recruiter, but was two consecutive interview, lunch and a third interview. It was quite a gruelling day! Interviews were mostly with managers of other teams and focused a lot on ways of working, how I handled problems, disagreements etc. I also learned a bit more about what the team did and planned work at this stage, mostly over lunch. The third interview was with two senior engineers and we went into depth on a technical project I'd completed at a previous job. I received a job offer and accepted shortly after. It was a long, intense process and felt quite repetitive compared to other interviews.

Brief phone chat about my experience and aspirations. This was followed by an un-timed coding test. Although they say un-timed, the instructions implied a time frame which is a couple of hours. There is a strong requirement to implement this in Ruby. The problem itself is an implementation of a trivial method, however don't be fooled because they are interested in your approach, use of patterns and attention to detail. If you have used Ruby before and are half a decent software engineer this should cost you an hour at most. This is the first time I wrote Ruby and it took me about 3 hrs approximately to get a solution I was happy to go with. Really important to note that you are not allowed to change any function signatures and such. This is not stated in the instructions and was raised as an issue in my case, because I decided to do so. Following up with HR it was indicated that it is sort of implied. So just be cautious. I have provided feedback and let them know that it should be stated clearly that we cannot change the functions the slightest. Not sure if that will be incorporated. This is a young company and I believe just like anybody else it would take some time for them to refine their process. All in all, everybody I interacted with was pleasant.