I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Just Eat Takeaway.com (London, England) in Aug 2013
Interview
I had an initial interview over Skype where I was able to find out more about Just Eat and answer a question or two about myself and my experience.
I also completed a technical test where I was asked to consume an API and build a prototype single-page website. I took a Test-Driven approach and added a few acceptance tests once I'd finished, using Selenium and SpecFlow. I also answered a couple of written questions on technologies I was interested in at the time and libraries I had been using.
I went to the company Head Quarters in London for my face to face interview. I spoke to quite a number of the more senior technology team members during my interview. I was there for a good 4 hours. The first hour or so was spend describing my work, drawing some diagrams of websites I was working on in my job at the time and explaining how I used a few of the main technologies that I was working with. The questions weren't unreasonably difficult and I took them as an opportunity to find out more about Just Eat by asking some related questions of my own to follow up.
After my interview I was invited to stick around and meet the team after work.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you tell me about methods, such as services you've used to speed up your website and improve performance.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Just Eat Takeaway.com
Interview
I liked the HR process, it was good and fast
I didn't like some of the technical interviewers, they seemed under stress, I had the feeling from them that layoffs are coming soon or the culture in the company is messed up somehow at this moment.
Basically a feeling of people being in survival mode.
Most of them didn't seem to care much about the process, and are probably biased in many ways in their hiring decisions, i.e: preferring to hire people worse than them to avoid the short-end of the stick.
But that's unproven, maybe I am wrong. I think culture fit is very important here, and technical ability not so much.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Just Eat Takeaway.com
Interview
Despite a warning from a current employee about how most teams in this company are not great for women, I applied to Just Eat because I was actively pursuing opportunities in Go development. I looked up the hiring manager's profile on LinkedIn, and I thought we would get on well as we seemed aligned in our motivations and professional mindset.
The interview seemed to go well. When I asked for an update, one piece of feedback I received was that I seemed confused about parallelism and concurrency, and that they would still proceed with my application. However, the next time Just Eat contacted me was when they asked for feedback about the interview process, which left me quite confused.
Regarding the confusion between parallelism and concurrency, when I was asked if I had used Go’s concurrency features, I mentioned that I had fixed some race conditions and enabled many tests which used channels to run correctly with t.Parallel(). Looking back, perhaps I should have specified that t.Parallel() marks a test for concurrent execution, and they will run in parallel depending on available resources, but I thought a Go advocate would understand this implicitly.
One thing to note is that they seem to evaluate CVs largely based on keywords, so despite having described that you've done something in detail, if the keywords are not explicitly included, that experience will be overlooked.
I interviewed at Just Eat Takeaway.com (London, England)
Interview
The process was efficient and typically took 1-2 weeks. It began with an online application, followed by a brief recruiter phone screen. The recruiter was very helpful and sped up the process as I was in other processes at the time.
Had a couple of interviews, cultural fit & technical screens.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design a highly scalable and fault-tolerant system to match delivery drivers to customer orders in real time, considering peak traffic during lunch and dinner hours?
