I applied online. The process took 7 months. I interviewed at FDM Group (Leeds, England) in Jan 2023
Interview
I applied in January-Fabruary 2023, did a phone interview, video interview, online assessments and then an assessment day which was a series of 3 x 15 min interviews with different people from FDM. the intervewing process was farily straight forward and pretty average difficulty. In march i got a job offer and i was told a start date would become available May or June.... July comes by and they keep telling me 'soon', 'soon'. 'We currently have no placements, please be patient'. August comes by, I am told that the start date could be this year or next year, they don't know! Fine, not in a hurry to start so can wait. End of september I get a call to say they have a start date... in less than 4 weeks! Not even enough to work a notice period. On top of this, they wanted me to go through new online assessments and a full day of face to face interviews in Leeds Office! 'because the tests are available for 3 months only and some of the employers changed their entry requirements' (despite them delaying my start date) for 7 months!) So my options were do the tests or if not they withdraw their application, or do the tests again and hope I get a job offer again. Completely unprofessional, not serious and imagine how they would behave once you're hired if this is how they behave before! A lot of sweet lies for nothing. What a waste of my time, effort and talent. I should have listened to all the negative feedback I've read and heard. All true!
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Telephone interview, video interview, online assessment, assessment day online interviews
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at FDM Group (Melbourne)
Interview
The first screening is a HackerRank test. The coding tasks are fairly straightforward; however, you won't be able to access any code documentation during the test, and the online editor can be a bit laggy at times.
If you are successful at the assessment, you will receive a phone call with no prior notification, so make sure to pick up calls from unknown numbers. During this call I was asked if I was available to work at both the Sydney and Melbourne offices, as this was a requirement to move forward with the role. In other words, you have to be willing to relocate to be a successful applicant.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at FDM Group (Hong Kong) in Apr 2026
Interview
Don't interview with this unprofessional company. Completed the interview with no response until 3 months later saying they thought I was just a mediocre candidate despite their engineers saying that I did pretty well in the technical assessments. The reason? HR simply didn't think I was good... from a 5 min generic interview asking basic questions from my resume. Better off working at other companies and saving your time. Would rather be jobless than work here. Good riddance!
First round is a phone interview with basic questions.
Second round same like 1st but online on a zoom call with some generic tech questions with HR.
Third round is an in person half-day interview with three rounds. First is a 5 min HR interview, then group interview, and lastly technical assessment.
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Question 1
What is a variable? Some topic about AI and tech in the workplace.
I applied online. I interviewed at FDM Group (Johannesburg) in Mar 2026
Interview
A simple virtual interview on teams with a recruiter and one other interviewer. The interview is fairly simple and very non-technical whatsoever. It is more to assess your behavioural traits rather than your technical ability.