I've been through a few interview processes but this was by far the strangest and most time consuming. I first applied to SkyScanner and their recruiter emailed me to come into the office in Glasgow to chat with him. Whilst at the office we had the basic chat about why you want to work there, etc and gave me a tour of the office. It seemed very premature to have me come into the office and give me a tour before any actual interview. After this was a take home test that takes around 6 hours to complete. You basically build a small app that lists airline search results based on a node endpoint in React. I completed this and they said I did well and moved onto the next round. The next round was talking to a kind of HR person in Ireland about my personality and way of working. After that I was put on the phone with a programmer from their office in Hungary who had a very thick accent and was rather grumpy in general like he didn't want to be doing this. I finally got a rejection email because of my inability to answer with the Hungarian programmer the difference between TCP/IP and UDP. This is after I made it very clear that I'm more of a Front End engineer which the recruiter said was fine. Amazingly, after all this, I never interviewed with the actual tech team i'd be working with in the office I applied to.

After a first interview with HR there were two big home assignments - 2 sets of tasks on HackerRank (3 hours each). Tasks covered JS (front end, back end development), algorithms and data structures, ranging from trivial to complex. In my opinion the tasks cover more than they probably need\expect from people on this position. After this there was a 2-on-1 interview with team (leaders?), which I find a complete disaster.