I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Revolut (Dubai) in Aug 2025
Interview
I interviewed in Revolut in end of August 2025 and process took 2 month (first interview - acceptance of offer). It can be shorter for some people but I tried to have max time I can between interview stages.
Recruiter informed me about all the stages I will go through and we also had catch-up calls before each interview stage. That helped me a lot tbh.
Stage 1, Screening; Recruiter asks simple questions, questions asked in every company
Stage 2, Live coding; Simple coding assignment with TDD. I used Spock but you can use any framework you want. I covered all possible cases but asked how can I tests a function which returns random values. I got stuck on that one but interviewer gave me hint that resulted me answering question correctly.
Stage 3, Tech; I has 2 sections. First one is live in Java coding again without tests & writing same business logic in SQL in a thread safe way. In the other half interviewer asked questions about concurrency, thread safety, DB transactions & management, microservices and etc.
Stage 4, System design; I have given a task to draw system architecture design for a system in Banking domain. Interviewer also asked to write down table structure for this system.
After passing all these stages you are accepted as SWE but they have one more stage where you matched with teams that looking for developers. After this meeting they can hire or not hire you based on those teams' feedback about you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Which resilience design patterns are you aware of?
HR -> Live coding -> Tech -> System design
Overall the before starting the recruitment process it's worth mastering concurrency, DB(especially PostgresSQL), and transaction management. Company seems to be working mostly with Java, Kotlin and a little with Scala
I got contacted by a recruiter. As a first step, I had a call with another recruiter. He was also asking technical questions, but it felt strange. (A bit like talking to a wall.)
I was rejected with a generic message stating that I was not "aligned with the position". This is weird as it was inbound and based on my profile. No feedback, of course.
Waste of time.
Very kind. The questions weren’t easy, but with knowledge of database configurations, concurrency, locks, and some practical experience, you are able to answer them clearly, confidently, and effectively overall. It was good time.