I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Coolblue (Amsterdam) in Jan 2018
Interview
The process was very long, First a call with HR to talk about why I wanna work in Coolblue, personal information, and a lot of questions about SCRUM, then a second interview again with HR and one Team lead more focus in soft skills, then a online test that was not hard but the last questions take time, then another meeting with the technical team to talk about your test and a lot of questions about FE, after that another interview with HR to talk about the feedback of that interview, I did not receive a proposal but at the end was very good and very honest maybe to long, I recommend invert the sense of the interviews, the tech first and then the soft skills to avoid 5 meetings.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Coolblue (Amsterdam) in Apr 2024
Interview
The interview process was smooth and they were super organized and professional. However, in my case their developers wasn't experiences so they were not able to properly review my code
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Coolblue in Apr 2023
Interview
I applied online and got a response next day with an invitation for a short call with a recruiter. The atmosphere was very informal. The recruiter asked about my age which was inappropriate and confusing. After that I proceeded with a soft skills interview (one hour duration call). Overall questions during both calls were blurry and chaotic. I didn't hear enough information about position, employer expectations and details about a team. I got refusal before being asked to showcase my technical skills. During a feedback call I received only explanation why I am not a good fit for the role and the company without mentioning any positive signals and sides. My overall impression is that the hiring team doesn't care about supporting candidates during interview process and bothers only about checking checkboxes from their instructions. P.S. I had a feeling that the recruiter wanted to end a feedback call as soon as possible after telling me about the refusal without giving some space to breath, think and analyze my performance.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A lot of soft skills topic related questions: about motivation to work at the company, why you consider yourself a good fit for the role, what are you most proud of in your job experience, how you handle conflicts, share feedback, what is challenging for you, etc.
I applied online. I interviewed at Coolblue in Apr 2023
Interview
After submitting my online application, I received an invitation for a first interview within just two hours. During the interview, the recruiter initially seemed friendly, but I became confused when he started asking irrelevant questions about my age. He also asked about my qualifications, to which I explained that I am self-taught and only have a diploma. He proceeded to ask more questions, and then finally asked about my salary expectations. After I gave my answer, he loudly exclaimed that my expectations were too high, and proposed a lower salary than what is typically offered to a developer in the Netherlands. The recruiter then told me that, due to my lack of a university degree, it would not be possible for me to obtain a working visa, and therefore they could not move forward with my application. It was apparent to me that they were looking for younger candidates who could be hired for lower salaries.
