I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Toptal (London, England) in Aug 2022
Interview
3 stage:
- Quick chat with someone (I suspect to check you are real)
- 1 hour with an engineer to do fairly standard live coding exercise.
- Take-home assignment for an entire week to build an app and backend server, followed by a 1 hour review interview.
The first two steps are fairly standard and to be expected, however the assignment will consume all of your time for the week, they expect you to build a shippable app by the end of it. This expectation is really pushing the bounds of what is legal, really, unless you are desperate for work, save yourself the hassle and don't even start interviewing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were no questions as such, just solve 3 simple problems in code.
Followed by build an entire app and backend.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Toptal (Groningen) in Feb 2026
Interview
The first part is a test with 3 questions, fairly easy on common and basic issues. The live coding interview was a 30min task that is hard to complete in just 30 minutes, as you hardly have time to stop and think.
I applied through other source. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Toptal in Apr 2025
Interview
Send in pdf and they review it, and after 2 days I got into the waitlist, but it's generally a good experience. I would recommend anyone who is interested to apply.
Very reasonable selection process, consists of 4 steps and lasts for about a month if your availability is in line with their pace. Not like Google or Amazon algorithm-heavy and white board oppressif interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Quick chat about your career and motivations - Codility test - Live coding session - Project
