I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Hexagon (Nottingham, England) in Feb 2022
Interview
A large number of hoops jump through. After an initial phone interview, and completing a substantial set of coding exercises (which took several hours), was asked to travel a large distance to give an in person presentation about a technical subject or project I had previously worked on. There was no option to perform this interview remotely, despite the fact I would have been relocating across the country for the role. Travel expenses were not provided, nor was catering or any other hospitality on arrival at the office. After the technical interview, and a recommendation to HR from the technical team, was made to complete over two hours of nonsensical online testing by the HR department, including an IQ test, a BuzzFeed-style personality quiz, and tests of basic arithmetic and reading comprehension skills. Those last two tests were rapidly-timed which made them stressful, dispute not being terribly difficult if you are proficient in English and have a GCSE-level education. They asked me to complete these tests the same day I received them. After receiving good test results, had an hour-long interview with HR about them, which amounted to an involved discussion of my BuzzFeed quiz results, culminating in being informed what that says about my Myers-Briggs personality type. This was very very useful and certainly not a waste of multiple people's time. They then proceeded to offer well below the market rate for the role.
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Question 1
Technical: Prepare a 15 min presentation about a project you worked on in a previous role. HR: Tell me why you should not leap across the conference room table and chin your colleague because they drank the last of the complementary coffee.
The assessment covers OOPS concepts, mathematics, basic coding, and database knowledge. Along with technical skills, evaluators also carefully observe your communication abilities, making it essential to balance subject expertise with clear, effective interaction.
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Question 1
oops concepts in much detail with lot of advance maths (geometry) & aptitude
My interview process at Hexagon started with a thorough resume screening that emphasized real-world projects, clear impact metrics, and clean tech stack presentation. The technical round focused on full-stack skills—especially backend systems using Spring Boot, API design, CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Docker, and writing effective unit tests with Mockito. I was also asked to solve a few Leetcode-style problems with a focus on my approach and clarity. The behavioral interview emphasized ownership, collaboration, and problem-solving in real scenarios, where I shared examples like implementing CI/CD from scratch to reduce hotfixes. Overall, Hexagon valued pragmatic, impact-driven engineers who could own systems end-to-end.
Interview went smoothly, it was a great experience. They were calm and helped me if I got stuck. It was divided into two rounds one was the technical round and other was HR round. In coding they asked a dynamic programming problem which i had to optimize till the tabulation method.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked every project I did in detail and dived deep into my resume.
