I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Paradine (UK) (Leeds, England) in Oct 2023
Interview
The interview process is fairly bizzare - but essentially being a two step process.
Firstly, I had a phone call interview with a recruitment partner, this was mainly behavioural asking the typical questions about motivations and experience.
Once passing this round, everyone was invited to the Leeds office for an assessment centre, which lasted the majority of the day. The assessment centre was broken down into a few sections - introductions, interview, market making games, group and invididual presentations.
Overall the process was handled quite poorly with a lot of waiting around before and after the interview. The interview consisted of a mixture of behavioural and technical questions, and was reasonable. However, the presentations were the most pointless part of the whole process. We were tasked with individually giving a presentation on anything interesting, and also a group presentation on pitching a stock that investors should purchase. I would love to know how any of this is relevant to someone's motivation and competency in software engineering.
It is also worth noting that the assessment centres consist of ~20 people, with around 2 people getting an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic resume questions about work experience and projects.
A whole day with them. You do public speaking (individually and in a group), you do a gamified version of betting where you work in a team and they see how you all interact and then there is a 1 to 1 interview which lasts 1h. This is simple logic code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Talk about your CV. Then two different coding questions, replace x character in String with position number in the String and another one I can't remember