I applied online. I interviewed at Nous (United Kingdom) in Jan 2026
Interview
Very casual confirmation, interesting questions, gave good advice for my career and working in operations in general. Advised me to look into n8n, Make and AI agents as they are very AI integrated.
Great initial discussions, I pulled out on the technical interview stage. Upon receiving a technical task I said naaaah.
In two hours building a solution in frontend & backend + make the design look good + make it responsive + write your technical decisions in the readme file? Really?
I decided to prioritise other recruitment processes that seemed more reasonable.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Nous (United Kingdom) (London, England)
Interview
Interview with co-founder and senior engineer. This was a good experience. Passed that and got through to a technical exercise. As mentioned in another review I felt that this was not possible to complete in the suggested 2 hours as unfortunately I do not have extra-terrestrial levels of precognition. I spent 4 or 5 hours to get something working and then received a rejection with some feedback a week later. My issue was some of the areas of feedback were things I would have worked on next if I had spent more time on it. The exercise may have been better with an open time limit but besides it was involved enough and took long enough a rejection was gonna suck.
Nous (United Kingdom) response
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Thank you for your feedback and for spending time on the exercise.
We have had a number of strong candidates so have had to make some tough decisions on who to progress. We do try and make the decision in the round - looking at the tech test itself, the readme and commentary on how you would develop it further with more time, the interview as well as your previous experience to make a balanced decision.
We’re always evolving the process so the feedback is useful. We're sorry it didn’t work out this time and wish you all the best going forward.