JustGiving

Application

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at JustGiving (London, England (UK)) in December 2015.

Interview

Sent my CV in the evening, got a call the very next day before midday, this was the phone screen stage. The recruiter was friendly and described the business and the role. Asked what I currently earned up front, which is never a good thing. At least wait till the process is further along, or even better, only ask what the applicant is expecting.

I was then asked to complete their standard GitHub recruitment test, which comprises of 4 simple user stories, nothing difficult about the test. After sending it through I got a response a couple of days later for an interview the following week.

Everything was very positive to this point, but sadly it went downhill from there.

As mentioned with other interviews, two senior developers interviewed me, they asked a couple of .NET framework based questions and design pattern questions.

There are some very big egos at that this company. The developers who interviewed me were very judgmental, expecting you to remember authors names, and when you don't know who they are talking about, they are flabbergasted? No, not the usual people like Robert C. Martin or Mark Seemann, who are great mentors and truly very well known.

The developers were trying very hard to ask obscure questions that they knew the answer to, and if you don't know the answer, they would give you a confused look. (The obscure questions are *not* listed in the Interview Questions section)

I knew straightaway that I wasn't going to get the job, it was obvious.

I've heard a lot of good things about JustGiving and that they are doing a lot of great things technologically, I have no doubt that this is true.

Choose who you send to attend interviews very carefully, they represent JustGiving and the picture you are giving to applicants is of arrogance and big egos.
Advice, get rid of the arrogant developers with big egos and fast!

Interview Questions