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Thanks for leaving us a review on your interview experience with Wolt, we really appreciate it, yet it sounds like everything didn't go perfectly this time on our end. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the discussions both with your recruiter and the different team members you met, so I'll focus on addressing your feedback towards the assignment and technical interview.
Firstly, we appreciate that a hiring process with Wolt will take some time and effort. Our interview process generally consists of 5 steps, out of which the assignment is the most labor intensive for the candidate. We appreciate that it takes quite a bit of time and effort to go through all the steps, but we feel confident every stage exists for a valid reason. Not only are the steps there for us to ensure good fit between our role and your skills and experience, but also for you to get enough of an understanding about Wolt.
You have some very valid feedback regarding our assignment scope, and we have already started a project to refine our frontend assignment. In the refined version we'll consider scoping it better to limit time spent (we usually aim our assignments to take 4-7 hours from the candidate at maximum). In terms of the design, while we believe that a frontend developer with a strong visual eye can build a pixel perfect UI from just an image, we don't expect our candidates to do so. While we review the UI implementation and mobile responsively, these are by no means deal breakers in the hiring decision we make nor do we expect pixel perfection. Our review is very comprehensive and we want our candidates to get as thorough feedback as possible.
Overall, we don't expect the perfect home assignment. In fact, we've received a precious few solutions in the last few years where we could clearly say that this is the perfect solution to the task - and yet have hire multiple front end developers. Our hiring decision is based on the overall solution, the severity of the potential problems or shortcuts the assignment has and overall performance in the technical interview. Our interviews should always be pleasant and conversational, so I'm happy to hear you had a good feeling on the back of your interview. In our view, you should have a good feeling even though our ultimate decision would be a "no".
Again, thank you for providing your feedback, we'll definitively take it into consideration now that we refining the assignment for the future frontend hires. I appreciate this might do nothing to alleviate your disappointment in spending time on the discussions and assignment, but rest assured that we definitively see it as a valuable experience to learn and improve.
