I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Babbel in Apr 2024
Interview
Pros:
- The people involved were really nice and polite.
- Clear expectations and feedback in the first two rounds.
- Clear questions and friendly conversations in the first two rounds.
- Hiring manager was great.
Cons:
- Lengthy process.
- Final feedback from last round (technical round) was ambiguous, biased and a bit exaggerated in the negative aspects.
- Last round (technical round) wasn't technical at all, just a reprise of the second round (EM+PM) with 3 or 4 technical questions about AWS.
- The questions in the last round were open ended, leading to expectations from the interviewers to not be fulfilled.
- The intentions of the interviewers weren't clear, they asked if I had experience with AWS and ask me to name a few of their services I knew, just list them. Later, in the feedback they mentioned that I didn't show technical expertise because I did not explain the services and that I went on for five minutes just spitting out the names of the services. I mentioned around 6-7 of them, that doesn't take five minutes to do so.