One of the poorest interviews I've ever had unfortunately. Interviewers were disengaged, un-collaborative and had poor communication skills. Wise looks like a great company on the outside and I hope this was a one off but my experience was not great at all. The interview was a brief introduction followed by a "code challenge", which for an engineering lead I was expecting something more involved than writing a service class that took an input of two strings, doing a Hashmap lookup, or calling an API if not found in the map and returning the result. Granted there were some follow ups with regard to scale and availability but this only scratched the surface of what I would expect a real life day to day responsibilities of an Engineering Lead to look like. Communication was also poor when asking questions about the make up of what being an engineer at Wise looks like and also what the interview process looked like from here on out. The HR screening call also said there would be a second part of the interview where there would be a focus on my experiences of scaling applications and processes, this never happened. I would be extremely concerned at the skill level of Engineering Leadership at Wise if this is bar to be at the level that this role is for. I'll give this stage the benefit of the doubt and hope it was a one off, but if you are interviewing at this level, be aware you may find yourself a bit surprised. I'd expect this type of code challenge for a junior/mid-weight developer.

I applied through online and next day got the reply to schedule interview. HR was very friendly, explained roles and responsiblities for the Enginnering Lead position.But HR not ready to listen my answers