This has been a great experience from recruiter contact great guy. Niranjit Bhengra. To the onboarding teams and managers. I do feel seen. I’ve been in companies where they onboard over 100 people you are just a drop in the crowd. No one to pay attention to your personal challenges. Thanks guys.

An absolute waste of so many people's time. I had a standard hour long interview with someone which went well and so they asked me to do a second stage group task. I had to sit through a 30 minute call the day before to tell us what to expect. They then made me do a group task with 4 other candidates in a THREE HOUR session where you get given a business problem and have to make and present a presentation to people pretending to be a client. This also included an introduction where we had to give a 'fun fact' about ourselves to the group and also have to sit and ask questions to existing staff thereafter about the company, which were basically all answered with 'it depends'. The task basically had nothing to do with my background or what I was applying for. There was no chance to demonstrate what I can actually do and felt like I was in that dream where you forgot to do your homework for a test you didn't know you were having. We were being silently judged in the planning phase and then also judged by 'the clients' during the presentation. It was all totally irrelevant and pointless, with everyone just talking over eachother and not even listening to ideas. They gave some feedback thereafter (a week later than advertised) where I apparently wasn't 'assertive or energetic' enough. How assertive and energetic can one be when you're sitting there without a clue to what the hell you're doing? It wasn't relevant to my role and not an industry I know anything about (and you have no time to research). This isn't a good simulation of a business scenario to demonstrate your skills in. You don't go in to a client call basically blind other than a poorly written presentation of information. You have to properly take time to analyse and look at the business and problems WITH SME's to get to route cause. Obviously I didn't get the role and I'm quite glad, because this company seems like a bit of a joke. The pointless interview is more of a social experiment than anything worth doing; I should have just logged off mid way.