Sollicitatievragen bij Coolblue

It was a pretty short review about the Platform and Device Developer position. Main questions where asked, nothing to difficult. We couldn't agree from the beginning in the net salary so we didn't move forward.

- call with a recruiter - call with team manager - online test - call with Business Analyst and the case probably extra steps after case interview Recruiter keeps you updated and regularly in contact with you

First step was to call with the HR person. Then had an interview with the team lead and a data scientist which I talked about one of my projects. After that they gave a case to do at home and send the answers. I failed at that step so I don't know what comes next.

If I could describe it in a few words I would say Kind and tuff. I sent my CV via the Coolblue page, then a recruit gets in touch with me, the first meeting was fast and straightforward. The Coolblue recruiter was good at communication and the capacity to catch information on the fly, which makes me more comfortable. 1) Then a first culture fit interview: The recruiter and a Tech manager with me during 40minutes talking about the development process, agile culture, computer science definitions, general questions but they can go deep in any subject on the fly. 2) The general capacity for all that works there to go deep in a technical subject is something that impresses me, so needed to be careful with that because my wish always provided my full capacity to explain my point of view, and sometimes a got lost in my thought trying to explain to them. So keep it simple is a suggestion. 3) Technical Assessment, they sent me a project and a briefing with some tasks to do, and some caveats. But always has some corners that they don't say at the document, and they let you comfortable to ping them any time you want to solve a question or ask anything. So do not be afraid to talk to them any time. And if you are not comfortable to take to them, as was my case, make sure you will test every single corner in your code. It would be necessary for the next session, they expect to be done at least 1 week. 4) Technical assessment review/technical interview: The hardest part for me, was with 2 principals developers from their side, both know deep the programing language and they will ask you some things that aren't that common for the language superfice. So If you can, prepare yourself to go deep if necessary. And keep the software design as your solid ground, design patterns, algorithms, and all those stuff will be necessary here. 5) If everything went well expect a kick call with the recruiter to congrats you and then book a kick-off session, If not, they will provide you good feedback with improvement areas and they will be happy to see another application after a year.

I had a meeting with HR. She said my English skills can be a problem for being hired in this position. Although I could express myself a little bit, I was having difficulty remembering some words since my native language is not English, but I think this would not be a problem for the job. I will relocate, have a work and residence permit max. in a month but they said they are looking for someone who has already located in the Netherlands. But it was more absurd when they said this position was opened by mistake; "we already hired someone else".

Aanmelding ging via de officiële website. Direct op dezelfde dag een reactie van de recruiter ontvangen met een uitnodiging voor een intakegesprek. Uitnodiging/afwijzing voor een volgende gesprek binnen enkele werkdagen.

Three stages: interview with recruiter, interview with developer and an in depth interview with team lead and senior developer concerning assignment made. Followed by a contract offered or not by Coolblue.

Na de online sollicitatie volgde er meteen een e-mail dat de sollicitatie ontvangen was. Binnen vijf dagen zou er contact worden opgenomen voor een eerste telefoongesprek met een recruiter. Gevolgd door een een online persoonlijkheidstest en capaciteiten test. Naar aanleiding daar van volgde er een eerste ronde (gesprek) met recruiter en teamleader. Daarna volgde een tweede en laatste gesprek met twee managers uit het department.

Twee keer telefonisch contact gehad. Dit waren twee korte gesprekken met HR. Vriendelijke dame maar voelde als een gesprek op de automatische piloot vanwege de standaard vragen en opmerkingen. Het afwerken van een lijstje.

Een online sollicitatie waarbij het CV geüpload moest worden. Een telefonisch gesprek en een Google Meets gesprek waarin verschillende vragen werden gesteld over voornamelijk de motivatie om bij Coolblue te komen werken