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      Python Developer Interview

      23 Sept 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Sifted (London, England) in Aug 2021

      Interview

      I was asked a few initial questions on the phone, went great, and the chat was followed by a written coding exercise for which I was given a few days. I sent back the exercise with my (fully tested and documented) code and got feedback that it wasn't good enough and they would go on with other candidates, which surprised me a lot since my code was clean and perfectly working. I assumed they expected more comments, different styling or maybe I had misunderstood the requirements, so I said I understood and asked for some details on the feedback so that I could improve myself for other applications to other companies, since I couldn't see anything obviously wrong with my code. They said they would check with the engineer who reviewed my code but never got back to me. I chased once 2 weeks later, never got a reply. At that point I strongly suspect the task I had to complete was actually a task that was needed on their end and which they gave as a "coding exercise", for which they probably never even intended to hire someone. So basically I worked for free. I can't prove it but even if I'm wrong, ignoring the candidate by not providing feedback is already an issue.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Very typical pre-screening 25-ish minutes interview on what was my current situation, why I applied (or rather why I answered yes to the recruiter), and what my experience with software engineering was.
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