Yozu interview questions

Initial video call to discuss experience and explain the role. 30 minutes. Second technical interview carried out via video call. 1 hour. Technical task in their office in Liverpool. Full day. (May as well have been remote as there wasn't a great deal of interaction throughout the day.) After this full process zero feedback was provided other than they would not be progressing me any further in the process. I have requested feedback several times and been completely ignored. If you're wondering whether you should take a risk on investing so much time in this process. You shouldn't. There is no interest in making it worth your time. There is also discussion amongst the developer community that they are repeatedly doing this to applicants. An in person interview is valuable, but the way this company is running their process is exactly why people don't want to partake in them anymore.

An initial chat telephone interview followed by a slightly more in depth video interview with a technical guy who asked some good, sensible questions. 3rd stage is a full day evaluation at their city centre Liverpool offices, where you are to complete a technical task. The technical task is given in advance, and states that it is language / platform agnostic and you should use the platform you are most comfortable with. Despite being told my ruby on rails was very rusty in the interview, when I expressed that I would be completing the task using another platform I was more familiar with (PHP laravel) it was expressed that it would be to my disadvantage, they wanted it in rails. Irritated that I spent time heading into Liverpool to find that it wasn't what was expected and their advance information was misleading. Also slightly worried that despite describing themselves as 'remote first' the Liverpool office was very busy. It is an old fashioned large, open plan, rows of desks, noisy environment (they also had 2 dogs running around, whether that's a plus or minus is up to you!), and not what I expected from a business focused on software development ( but it could be that the office itself is more of a sales / admin focus ). The tech guy in the interview seemed like someone I would like to work with, but people should be warned, despite what you are told, they are looking for people focussed on rails, who can hit the ground running on rails. They are not looking to take on good brains and let them spend any time getting back up to speed.