I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Just Eat Takeaway.com (Londen, Engeland) in Mar 2016
Interview
I was first called by a product/project manager who asked me the typical questions. I told him that I didn't have a lot of hands on experience in the current web development stack, but that was fine for him as I was willing to learn. He wanted to take me in with less experience in that area because he liked the overall business experience I had and technical skills.
They sent me an exercise to do, which I did (using these technologies), and was called for a face to face interview.
At the face 2 face I was interviewed by 3 developers who were not communicated in any way that I wasn't an expert in web development (but apparently were expecting that). Even though I answered all the questions quite well in the refactoring phase and the presentation phase, I wasn't able to go much further in the web architecture phase, because I just don't have the knowledge yet. To me it felt that for this last thing they discarded me, it was pretty clear.
I stressed out that my experience in that particular area wasn't that big but I was willing to learn (expressed for example by the exercise presented and general knowledge of tools, etc.), but that wasn't enough.
I never met in person the product/project manager.
I think the main drawback in the interview process is that the project/product area's desires didn't reach the actual interviewers, which are just developers, and they can easily discard a candidate just because he/she doesn't have a current level of expertise they expect or is written down in a preset interview process.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Refactoring Phase
- The exercise to be done at home was an MVC app that retrieved a list of restaurants from an API given by the company. They asked to add sorting by restaurant name. First they ask you where would you do it, then they ask you to implement it
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Just Eat Takeaway.com (Bristol, Engeland) in Jun 2015
Interview
2 hours interview over the phone with bloke from Canada. Pleasant and friendly. Then received coding test, was not invited to the in person interview as I have done coding test in few hours not days. It said I can spend as much is as little time doing it, but if you want the job make sure you code it right with dependency injections and very clever unit testing. To be honest if if offered I probably would not accept offer as just eat only offer salary and practically no other perks.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Just Eat Takeaway.com (Londen, Engeland) in Aug 2013
Interview
Initial communication was over the phone with a Canadian Just-Eat employee, who told me about the companies ethos, what would be expected, and really sold the company to me.
This was followed by a technical test which involved consuming their APIs and following a set of stories, which was enjoyable as it felt less detached from the the business than the standard "robot wars" style of tests.
The face to face was in front of a panel of 3 or 4 developers, and I was given a pen and a whiteboard to explain a system's architecture I'd written in the past. It was an intense experience, but the questions being asked were always fair and showed the level of the guys who were interviewing me.
Finally I met the guys I'd be working with if I got the position, and briefly shown the structure of the solutions and codebase.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was given a real technical issue to discuss how I'd solve (multi-hub structure to signalr), which was interesting as after explaining how I'd solve it and expecting to be told if it was how they'd done it, became a discussion on how they were currently deciding how to solve it. It was good as I felt engaged with the team already.