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      Software Developer Interview

      26 Oct 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Liverpool, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Yozu (Liverpool, England) in Oct 2022

      Interview

      An initial chat telephone interview followed by a slightly more in depth video interview with a technical guy who asked some good, sensible questions. 3rd stage is a full day evaluation at their city centre Liverpool offices, where you are to complete a technical task. The technical task is given in advance, and states that it is language / platform agnostic and you should use the platform you are most comfortable with. Despite being told my ruby on rails was very rusty in the interview, when I expressed that I would be completing the task using another platform I was more familiar with (PHP laravel) it was expressed that it would be to my disadvantage, they wanted it in rails. Irritated that I spent time heading into Liverpool to find that it wasn't what was expected and their advance information was misleading. Also slightly worried that despite describing themselves as 'remote first' the Liverpool office was very busy. It is an old fashioned large, open plan, rows of desks, noisy environment (they also had 2 dogs running around, whether that's a plus or minus is up to you!), and not what I expected from a business focused on software development ( but it could be that the office itself is more of a sales / admin focus ). The tech guy in the interview seemed like someone I would like to work with, but people should be warned, despite what you are told, they are looking for people focussed on rails, who can hit the ground running on rails. They are not looking to take on good brains and let them spend any time getting back up to speed.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Typical technical question, what is a polymorphic relationship?
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      Yozu response
      3y
      Really sorry for any misunderstanding here - there was an assumption made on our behalf that given this specific role was for a Senior Rails Developer then the technical task was to be completed in Rails and the candidate would have that as their preferred framework, but we definitely should have made that clear in the task spec and have now altered the wording to reflect that. As for the office being busy - that's because we ask anyone who's local if they're able and happy to, to come in and meet the candidate in person and have lunch with them. We like for you to meet a good selection of us so you get a better sense of the team you'd be working with and ensure we're the right team for you, as much as the other way around (we do also have candidates speak to members of the team working remotely on video calls throughout the day, too). Apologies again for any miscommunication or misunderstanding on our behalf - obviously not how we want the team and tech day to go! All the best.

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