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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2+ weeks. I interviewed at G-Research (New York, NY (US)) in November 2018.
Interview
Phone interview covering general programming knowledge and a hackerrank coding challenge.
Half day of on-sites with 3 interviews:
- Systems Design
- Programming Exercise
- Algorithms & Data Structures
Was not invited back for second round of on-sites, but overall very enjoyable interview process. Very pleasant and intelligent interviewers and a great recruiter who was very forthcoming with information about the company and guidance about the interview process. Thanks Max! Received very detailed interview feedback on where I did and didn't perform well.
Overall great experience. A company that treats candidates with respect.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at G-Research (London, England (UK)) in July 2012.
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Had to sign a confidentiality form so I won't get into much detail. Anyway, the interview involves no human interaction: the only words I exchanged with the interviewer were to answer the question "Java or C#?". Then, you are given some problems (I had 4) and you have a computer to code them up. They use Windows, and you have both Visual Studio and Eclipse at your disposal. They expect you to code up running code, and you have only 1h. Definitely a hard interview (I failed).
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I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at G-Research (London, England (UK)) in July 2017.
Interview
Online test, followed by 2 on site interview sessions each consisting of 3 interviews of an hour each.
The online test was easier than similar tests I have taken at other companies, but seemed pitched fairly well to weed out weak applicants without making it unreasonably hard.
The first day of interviews were all with members of the team I applied for, and all almost exclusively technical.
The second day was a mixture of technical interviews and more qualitative interviews with senior staff.
Generally a well organised process.
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Very general questions across all aspects of technology from a variety of topics including context switching, TDD and networking. Live coding exercise as well. Very high bar, no offer
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at G-Research (London, England (UK)) in October 2017.
Interview
The interview process was tough, which was what I expected. You need to know your stuff! I was struck by how intelligent the people I met were during the interview process, and felt that I was given an adequate amount of feedback. Unfortunately I did not get an offer.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4+ weeks. I interviewed at G-Research (London, England (UK)) in July 2017.
Interview
Online test, followed two on site interviews.
Each onsite interviews were a mixture of knowledge questions and pen and paper style interview question taken by members of the team, role was for. Passing this first stage of each interview, the later parts took the form of informal chats with members of management and show around the office.
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at G-Research (London, England (UK)).
Interview
I cannot tell anything specific but it is like everywhere else. They did not ask anything specific or hard, the usual easier questions. However if you don't know any small details then most likely you would be rejected. I met with my most arrogant interviewer in my life, if they told me they were like that I would have never applied for them.
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I applied online. I interviewed at G-Research (London, England (UK)).
Interview
Applied via Indeed. Invited quite quickly to an assessment day.
A few other candidates present on the day. Process began with an informal presentation from a kind of VPE. He went through what the company actually does, how it's organised and a bit about the culture.
Next up, a written test. Fairly basic CS knowledge being tested with an emphasis on breadth over depth.
Tests were marked whilst we went for lunch with the grads. After lunch, we were called into a room one-by-one and were told whether we'd made the grade to continue.
We all passed the test (I think) and were assigned meeting rooms where we'd stay for the rest of the process. 4 interviews, varying massively in style and difficulty, each about 40 minutes. Exhausting, quite intense, but also quite fun.
Round off with recruiter and fairly quick response.
Invited to the final round interview - a half-hour interview with each of the group manager's to see where you'd like to work and, of course, if they'd want you. I was a bit slow to respond to the email and they (apologetically) informed that the spaces had already gone.
With the exception of chatting to the grads and recruiter, it all felt very clinical. Still though, it was an enjoyable experience overall and looks like a great place to work.
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I applied through a staffing agency. The process took a week. I interviewed at G-Research (London, England (UK)) in March 2018.
Interview
First stage was a programming exercise that could be done at home - rather tricky, but very fun to work on.
This was followed by on-site interviews, which lasted ca. 4 hours with 3 interviews in total, each led by 2 people. These mostly focused on technical questions, testing both a broader understanding of programming principles, as well as some more in-depth questions. The questions were fair and well thought through; each solvable rather quickly in principle, but allowing for different approaches while leaving room to explain one's thought process behind whatever approach was taken; and presented in a way that would allow the interviewers to give certain tips to formulate a solution, rather than strict "do or do not know it"-questions).
Feedback after the interview was given within 3 working days.
All in all, a tough but very enjoyable experience - which is quite a rarity to say about any job interview.
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I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4+ weeks. I interviewed at G-Research (London, England (UK)) in February 2018.
Interview
I had an initial phone screen, followed by a "homework" coding test and several face-to-face interviews. The interview process I felt was polished and straightforward, and the recruitment team were universally excellent in facilitating this. The interviews themselves I was more disappointed with, as I felt there was too heavy an emphasis on academic computer science knowledge rather than practical development skills.
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