I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Octopus Energy (Melbourne) in Jan 2023
Interview
1. Screening phone call with recruiter. Basically just went over some stuff on the CV and she seemed like she just needed to tick some boxes for fit. Not difficult at all. 2. Cultural fit interview with 2 developers. Nice and comfortable interview where they explained a bit about the company and I talked about my background. Not very technical, but we discussed experience. 3. Take-home assignment of building a small Python application related to the industry. 4. Technical assessment interview with senior staff going over the take-home assignment and previous experience. 5. Cultural fit interview with the CTO, who explained a bit more about the business and how it worked. 6. Offer
4 stages: 1- Initial phone call with a recruiter to discuss the position and your qualifications. 2- Technical questions and a discussion of your approach to solving a coding task. 3- An offline coding challenge. 4- A final interview with the senior technical team members, to assess the coding task, hear more about the team and get to know each other.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Regular HR questions, Architecture, Software testing, etc.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Octopus Energy in Jul 2022
Interview
3/4 stages.
1) Call with a recruiter.
2) Interview with a senior technical member of the team to share some relevant experience and get to know each other.
3) Time-boxed coding homework to be done offline (abour 3h).
4) General technical knowledge questions and discussing the approach and considerations taken in the coding task.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Discussion about database technologies, data modelling, software testing, concurrency, internationalization of applications...