I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Revolut (Mumbai) in May 2021
Interview
Home task that needs to be solved in 7 days. After which there is a problem solving round.
I had read a couple of interviews on glassdoor stating that their interviewer was in a hurry and I was just hoping that something like this won't happen with me. There were a couple of problems with the interview, because of which sadly I lost my chance:
1. Interviewer joined a bit late because of some issue, then he started running through the interview as fast as he could.
2. While solving the problem. from what I have learnt from my case study interview practice so far, that you divide the problem into various buckets and state your hypothesis for each of that. I did that, but while I was stating my hypothesis he said why are you already concluding the problem already.
3. During the course of problem statement, according to him only his wat of approaching the problem was correct, and we just cannot approach the problem by any other mean I guess only because he might have passed the interview due to that approach. Instead he could help the interviewee to let him approach the problem on his own while redirecting him/her when he is stuck.
I had so many hopes from this interview and that guy simply ruined it for me. I think I did pretty well on the home task, even though it was a time of pandemic in India and I had lost someone in my family during that week only but I gave my best in that submission and had put my soul and heart. And this is what I had to experience in the problem solving round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Profitability case interview.
Tell me about yourself
I was contacted through LinkedIn. The process went as follows:
1. HR call: positive experience. Mix between understanding my background deeper and giving HR information regarding the role. Recruiter was helpful, professional, and friendly.
2. Online test: positive experience. Went as expected and felt relatively easy.
3. HR call: positive experience; was briefed on next steps.
4. Take-home exercise: skipped this step
5. Business case: positive experience. Interviewer was professional, friendly and collaborative. Case was simple in design but allowed for extensive discussions.
6. Bar raiser interview: terrible experience. Stone-cold interviewer who wasn’t agile between questions and shortened the interview to a ridiculous duration. No follow-up question asked. Interviewer didn’t bother answering questions regarding his experience/the firm with any full sentence. Very confusing experience that felt like a loss of time…
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the bar raiser interview: what was the mission of your previous role and your business metrics, who were you reporting to, how would your previous employer rate your performance out of 10, did you get promoted within the same timeline as your peers, what was one of your main achievements, what is an elegant but simple solution you found to a problem, tell me about a time you solved an inefficiency in a process
made it till round 4(problem solving interview). Good experience. They arranged screening call, then aptitude test, then PS. The interviewers were friendly and supportive. PS round was difficult for me as I was not able to think on the spot during the interview.
Long. Pre-screening, aptitude test, gmat sort of test, problem solving, case, bar raiser. I had a bad experience. Not because the interviews very difficult, but the attitude was rude, they were mean, arrive late to the calls. If that is the interview...how is the working culture day by day?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Airport ops type of business case. Gmat test. Study MBB case and you will be fine.