They give you a sample project which was very easy. Then the Dev team will question you around the sample project.
The CEO involved as the final step and the way he assessed a developer's proficiency was an old-fashioned way .
I applied online. I interviewed at Tradera (Stockholm, Stockholm) in Oct 2020
Interview
I applied for a Software Engineer position at Tradera on their website. I didn't receive any message from them for more than 2 weeks when out of the sudden I received an unplanned phone call from a recruitment agency working for Tradera.
I immediately started to have some concerns when I've seen that the company is not actually handling the recruitment but it delegates it to an agency.
The recruitment agency started immediately to build a profile for themselves. They didn't even send my CV to Tradera before starting to talk about other companies and roles they were recruiting for. This was very unprofessional.
After a few more weeks (caused by the sloppy and unprofessional process with that agency) I managed to talk directly with Tradera where I met some product people who didn't provide too much information about the role. They focused more on asking some general behavioural questions.
After this I decided to drop from the process and proceed with the interviews from other companies which were more promising.
Thank you so much for taking the time to review your experience. For some roles, we're a working with agencies and external parters. We know it's not optimal but we're a small organization with few roles and we believe this can be helpful to find the best and most talented people. However, it doesn’t change our goal to offer a great interview process and admittedly things can always be improved. Your feedback is valuable and will help us understand how we can evolve. Thanks again!
Kind regards / Tradera