I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Octopus Energy in Feb 2025
Interview
1. Interview with a Talent Partner for screening purposes.
2. At-home assessment involving coding and applied microeconomics.
3. Google Meet interview with two team members to discuss the assessment and beyond (including economics and personality-related questions).
Your Talent Partner will keep you informed and provide feedback at each stage. A big thank you to Ruth Barker for her friendly communication throughout the process—it gave me the insight that Octopus is a very welcoming place to work.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why are you interested to work at the Centre for Net Zero?
Was ok overall. Interviewer was nice. Didn't make it to the next round because mismatch in skills. I am adding a few extra words to make the minimum limit. And still not enough, now it should be enough though.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Octopus Energy (Manchester, England) in Feb 2024
Interview
- Interviewed with recruiter first to give my background and discuss the company
- Then did a coding task which asked me to analyze information about the electric grid
- then a technical interview with a data scientist, a data engineer and a product manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what were the assumptions you made about the data to do your calculations and how would you go about supporting those assumptions
