Friendly colleagues with some serious questions from the Japanese staff. She came quite strong probably because she wasn't a native speaker and her selection of vocabulary was very limited. Overall a very pleasant experience with some very talented local employees.
I applied online. I interviewed at Novuna (Staines, England) in Oct 2025
Interview
It was very long and i feel like they asked me so long questions and it was 2/3 people who were there. She was hungarian and very nice and she was the one hiring, i think i have all the relevant experiences they required from the role
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
pioneeringspirit and how novuna has inspired me to apply
second stage with team: The interview process was extremely disappointing. hr was good but then The focus was almost entirely on behaviour and unnecessary bureaucracy in tech interview , rather than genuine hiring. It became clear that the manager had no real intention of hiring and was simply ticking boxes to justify a pre-decided rejection.
Despite spending weeks preparing — reviewing SQL, Python, modelling frameworks, and completing all infromation about company and method— there were no specific technical questions. They seemed to look for excuses rather than evaluate skill. The process felt subjective and based on personal preference or “gut feeling”, especially in the in-person stage.
I invested my own time, money, and travel for an interview that could easily have been done online, only to be dismissed without meaningful evaluation. The experience was not respectful of candidates’ effort, and I would not recommend spending your resources on a process that feels predetermined and inconsistent.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
competency like difficulty and achivement , .... some