Sollicitatievragen bij ACT Commodities

This is for Senior Software Engineer position for the company CerQlar (ACT is parent company), so writing the review here. CerQlar reached me out for this position, The first introduction round went well, we both agreed on the requirements. Then had the second round which is technical, It also went well. The tech stacks and requirements were discussed. They are happy with that and gave the assignment project to complete. Its different debate to have the assignment or not. I did completed the assignment on time and put lot of effort and time (more than a week) and submitted. After few days i just received a very vague email stating that "Unfortunately we won’t be moving forward with your candidacy at this time, with limited space open for this position, our process just became quite competitive quickly.". I feel this is very vague and disappointing response and they did not even mention anything about the assignments not even small feedback provided on my assignment where I spent lot of time and effort to make it. They could have given this feedback in my first round itself, not sure why they really wasted my time. I am expecting some courtesy on the candidates effort instead simply throwing away with a vague response. I also sent a gentle follow up email asking some feedback on the project to see what went wrong, but no response. I agree there could be better candidate and respect the decision but have some courtesy and provide proper feedback respecting their time and effort spent for you.

I sent the application, and a few days later, HR called me first, asked some basic information. And then they scheduled an online video interview for me. Two interviewers are from finance department.

Les entretiens se sont bien déroulés dans l'ensemble. Plus de 3 entretiens avec divers interlocuteurs sur une période de 3 semaines pour un stage de 6 mois, pour s'entendre dire que l'on ne convient pas au poste.

Was contacted by HR for a phone screen for their biofuels and feedstock desk. Was informed all trading is back to back and the company doesnt have upstream assets. Most questions are behaivioral as they ar looking for sales people.

30 minute get to know each other call. Really nice talk, general questions to see if we were both on the same page, discussed general job characteristics, expectations, and what My added value would be.

I was interviewed for the role of IT support working student First a HR screening and then a technical interview. The firm is building their in-house support team. The Interviewer said he was the Support Lead but didn't sound like one.  Interview itself was very easy.  At times Interviewer was confused with himself  on the questions. Having interviewed at other trading firms in NL,  some questions sounded very naive both on technical  and trading related ones. Interviewer probably knows one solution to a question and when challenged with another answer was clueless. For instance, there's more than one way to empty a file, not just using /dev/null.  Felt like being interviewed by a newbie. The interview didn't give a positive feeling about the skillset and learning scope at the company,  especially if you're coming from a top tier university. Didn't seem like a challenging workplace anyway. I'm not surprised to see similar interview feedbacks listed in glassdoor. Fortunately had an offer from another trading company and moved with it.

Very brief conversation with the first HR. Positive feedback and a skype interview with HR Total failure. The HR did not know what he was talking about, he confronted me on how business cold calls should be done saying "I would not do like this". He said that the first year is an "investment" and so I should not have had any expectation on bonus. They do not provide you a single client. The HR seemed disinterested, not excited at all. Frankly not a good job. Positive thing he personally called me to communicate to me that I was not chosen, without providing concrete feedback

1 step motivational interview, they ask about my experience, why i am interested in finance and financial markets. why i want to work for this company. what it is a daily routine as sales trader, and what i expect by this internship

Sono stato contattato da un recruiter su LinkedIn il quale mi ha fissato un primo colloquio per chiamata telefonica, in questo colloquio mi è stato chiesto semplicemente di parlare di me stesso evidenziando le mie caratteristiche che sono più affini al ruolo da sales trader. i colloqui successivi sono avvenuti per videochiamata e sono stati fatti seguendo la stessa tipologia del primo ma con altri dipendenti.

The interview starts with 2 rounds with HR for a fit screening. They are very much sales and goal-oriented, they don't care about which kind of person you are as it is a hostile environment in which you compete with your colleagues