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      Senior Software Developer Interview

      Jan 5, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Amsterdam
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Takeaway.com (Amsterdam) in Nov 2020

      Interview

      The recruiter reached me at the beginning of November 2020. As they told me, they are setting up brand new software development teams in their Amsterdam office. After I told them I want to continue the process, I got my first interview invitation after three weeks. The first interview was with an engineering manager who oversees these new teams. He was a good guy whom I enjoyed interviewing. He asked me about my background and past experiences. I also explained to him how I want to continue my career. He stated that they are looking for people with some financial knowledge, which I have. He told me that the next step would be a technical interview but with a surprise. This technical interview will be a pair programming session, which has to be remote. I wanted to learn the reason since it is an interesting way of interviewing during this period. He told me that they hired contractors to start the foundation. But later, they decided these contractors should decide on the interview procedure and do interviews. These contractors decided that everything should be done by pair programming, even interviews. In my opinion, this can't be determined by contractors because they are going to leave the company. Three weeks later, I got the invitation for the technical interview. The recruiter told me that it would be a 2-hour session, and I should prepare the environment that I will be comfortable. There were two contractors as interviewers in the session. We started coding a URL shortener backend application. They were very rude from the start and criticized everything until the end. Their comments were not to improve pair programming but to block and demoralize me. After this technical interview, the recruiter reached to tell me that they want to continue the next step of the interview. I told him that I don't want to continue because of the technical interview, and I don't want to work with people like them.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Why you are using this framework?
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      Takeaway.com response
      5y
      Thanks for writing this comment and letting us know about your experience. We are sorry to hear that you felt disrespected. We do believe that your experience as a candidate has to be positive, we will share your review with our contractor to make sure this doesn't happen again and we sincerely apologize. We would like to highlight that our contractors are only there to help us with the technical assessment, but the decision making is always in our hands. Besides the Director which you spoke to, a Senior Manager, Team members and Talent Acquisition is involved in this process and our decision making. Nevertheless, if you want to discuss your case, our tech recruitment lead will be happy to hear more about your experience at christian.portig@justeattakeaway.com. Thanks again and happy 2021!

      Other Senior Software Developer Interview Reviews for Takeaway.com

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 25, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Enschede
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Takeaway.com (Enschede) in Dec 2020

      Interview

      - I got a call and Email from HR. - Then they sent a document for a project to do on very short time (Like as soon as possible) . - Then if your code got their impression , you will do an interview (Video) with the Engineering Manager. - Then interview (Video) with Team. --

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      A project to do (in any technology / programming language you want) but actually they will ask you later to do the project in their Fav. programming language (PHP) , as you want to make sure you're very fitting in this position ... Then they will discuss (challenge) your code with you.
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      1
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      Takeaway.com response
      5y
      Thanks for sending over this feedback. We would like to hear more about your experience and understand better why you feel it was negative so that we could learn and improve. Please, if you can, share your thoughts with us at feedback@takeaway.com

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Nov 27, 2020
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Berlin
      No offer
      Negative experience

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Takeaway.com (Berlin) in Oct 2020

      Interview

      After having applied to takeaway.com for a role in Berlin I received an email from hr recruiter for a phone call which I had to schedule with the help of a third party application they provided over email. Immediately after scheduling the call I get a message from the recruiter that it was really nice talking to you.....an automated email which we receive after the initial screening round kind of an automated mail and that we would we cannot move ahead with your application. Etc So was this a joke? Do you take applications seriously?

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      none
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      2
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      Takeaway.com response
      5y
      Hi and thanks for this review. We are taking applications very seriously and appreciate every candidate for considering Takeaway as an employer. We are sorry for this mistake and we are now looking into changing the automated message sent to candidates so that this won't happen again.

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