I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at BBC
Interview
I applied in April. Around 6 weeks later I was asked to do a video interview and a 4-8 hour coding test. I passed these and was then told to book onto a Zoom face-to-face interview.
Basically my interview did not happen because the HR recruiter did not send me a Zoom link to join the meeting. So my interviewers got a bad first impression of me by no fault of my own.
I was thoroughly disappointed and chased HR up. I was ignored for a week, until I finally received a response that HR would try to help to organise another.
Almost 2 weeks later, I was given another interview time, for Wednesday the following week.
I was elated and prepped...
Unfortunately, the week before this second interview they sent me another email that I missed - requesting to change the date again. I emailed requesting another attempt but have been ignored.
I feel it is a bit poor taste for HR to ignore me. Especially considering the hours I've now effectively wasted writing code, and prepping for the interviews.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
We’d like to know more about your skills and experience for this apprenticeship. Imagine you are talking with BBC’s Lead Data Scientist, in 2 minutes, tell her why you feel you have met the specialist candidate criteria that is detailed within the job description and why you are ready for this opportunity. (2 Mins)
Using a single example, please detail a task which required you to use either python or another programming language detailing the task, your involvement, the objective, if anyone else was involved in supporting you and what was the outcome from the task .(3 min)