The 1st interviews was okay, talked about my experience and why I was interested in the role. The 2nd interview though as a full day affair, starting at 9am going all the way till around 3 pm. The first part included a coding exercise to see your coding ability, this involved a sheet with a few questions about making a password generator. Quite engaging and I believe a good test of ability. Then talks with different members of staff, some just a small talk others for getting to go through your projects. Then after lunch a review on your coding. After this it was a presentation with a senior member of staff on a subject you had prepared and later end talks. Over this was a good experience though if a but longer then needed. After that I waited to hear my feed back, unfortunately that never came and I was just informed I was unsuccessful. How disrespectful. After hours and days of preparing they didn't give feed back. This may be a good company but there interview process need to be re thought and they need to learn to respect people who put so many hours into the interview process.

I applied online with a CV and cover letter. I got an email a few days later inviting me to an interview, which was about an hour long and 1 on 1. The interviewer was very nice, mostly questions about my experience with data science and my master's project and different programming languages I knew. I was told I would hear in 1-2 weeks about the next stage, now four weeks later I have heard nothing, despite an email asking for feedback. Given that I spent lots of time preparing I think the least they could do is inform me of the decision and give me a few lines of feedback. Perhaps they don't want to say that they rejected me because I said I wasn't comfortable working in the defence industry.