I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Revolut in Jul 2019
Interview
I applied in revoult in July 2019 and got a revert from HR regarding an HR discussion. After the HR discussion, she gave a technical home task to build an application for Money Transfer which does not have any detailed requirement and asked to use common sense which should be completed within a week.
I would like to warn everyone reading this review especially anyone requiring work visas, please do not apply and waste your time. As companies like this give an abstract requirement and expect you to think exactly what they are thinking. I developed the code and wasted 3 days and then waited for a week to get a NO from the recruiter. I followed all the design principles, covered all test cases, applied common sense and add functionalities such as commission deduction in case of international transfers which they considered as OVER ENGINEERING and rejected. A complete waste of time and efforts.
In 2023 I passed 2 technical stages, but I failed at the third last stage, System Design, and I was given a detailed feedback which I appreciated.
In 2024 I was approached by the recruiter and was asked to retry the last stage. I did System Design which in my opinion went much better then the first one, but I failed again. This time I didn't get any feedback. I asked 3 times, in 3 separate emails for feedback, which I finally received, but it was vague, lacked any technical details and it seemed to be AI-generated.
In 2025 I was asked to repeat the process again by a recruiter, but I'm not going to take part in it because I had negative experience in 2024.
Very stress free. The interviewer was quite nice and even helped debugging the code and etc. The most important thing is being communicative and explain your intentions when developing the code.
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Question 1
They asked me to develop a load balancer in Python and changed the requirements multiple times.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Revolut (Barcelona) in Jul 2024
Interview
From the very beginning, the interaction conveyed the coldness of a traditional bank. During the first interview, I felt uncomfortable. With 15 years of experience in my field, I felt like the interviewer wasn't listening to me. Additionally, it was unclear whether I was speaking with someone from human resources or a technical person, which caused confusion.
In particular, I was concerned that the interviewer thought that Spring and Hibernate are part of the Java core, which demonstrates a basic technical misunderstanding. It seemed that the interviewer didn't understand much beyond a few fixed questions. This very aloof attitude was not only disconcerting but also made the interview unproductive and unpleasant.
Anyway I appreciate the opportunity you provided.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
questions about whether it works with Java core.
Questions about optimistic lock.
Questions about what database he knew.
Can two objects have the same hash?