Process took a couple of weeks and I went through an external recruiter. Firstly I had a MS teams video call with an engineering manager and software engineer. Discussing the role in more detail and my relevant experience. This was pretty relaxed and informal. After a week I then had to chase to be given feedback and details on the next stage. Second stage was a take home technical test which 2-3 hours, was pretty straight forward refactoring exercise in order to add unit tests whilst adhering to SOLID principles. Also to keep in mind KISS, YAGNI l, ask don’t tell etc. Thought I’d done ok on this considering the time limit and ASOS not wanting gold plating as mentioned in the test brief. Was told I wasn’t successful as it wasn’t what they were looking for from SSE. Didn’t receive any more feedback than that I.e exactly what was missing/incorrect from my submission. This is really disappointing considering I took the time to do the test. Also considering they advocate pair programming/ TDD the take home test doesn’t really align with that.

There were three phases, a phone interview, technical test and a final stage with 3 people. First over the phone talk was quite typical, it allowed both parties to decide if they were happy to proceed, simply talking high level about what they were working on and then me doing the same about my current role. Second stage was a take at home test, where you had 2 hours to refactor a solution based on conditions supplied with the test. Third was a 2 1/2 hour interview with three employees where I discussed my technical test and white boarded (paint) the architecture of solutions at my current role. Plenty of best practice and technical questions asked throughout as well as generic and behavioural based questions. This was a really free-flowing interview which I enjoyed - lots of engagement and felt like I was just having a chat with three similar minded people. Overall it was a great experience where I was kept up to date throughout the whole process and quickly heard back after each phase.