I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Octopus Energy
Interview
Coding challenge. Related to meter reading. You had to extract meter values. You do this challenge by yourself. They tell you to use a lot of comments. You are required to do unit testing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself.
Discuss one of your projects.
What was hard about the challenge they gave you?
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Octopus Energy (Londra, Inghilterra) in May 2020
Interview
Pre-screening by a very uninterested and apparently bored junior HR, belonging to an HR company they contracted out. The interview itself lasted about 10 minutes as either the interviewer was screening too many candidates, or simply did bother to show any attention or care.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic questions about the experience of the candidate, characterised by a total lack of interest and empathy on the interviewer. The interview was very brief and apparently you have to "show enthusiasm" forOctopus Energy, rather than being a good developer.
No actual technical question was asked, and the interviewer demonstrated that a developer was considered some sort of basic easily replaced commodity, who has to conform and be enthusiastic. I don't even know if the role was for real, surely they did not invest in a competent HR. The whole process was rather insulting. Probably they are aiming for junior roles, or for people incapable of critical thought: I guess the quality of the software is not their main concern. The interviewer may have been biased either racially or culturally.
Hi there, we're really sorry to hear your felt you had a negative experience with us. Please do feel free to email us on people.team@octoenergy.com to talk about this in more detail. Thank you.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Octopus Energy (Londra, Inghilterra) in Nov 2017
Interview
Interviews were a bit disorganised and rambling. It was approx 2hr interview, the second stage was a 4hr programming problem solving task (done in own time) and then another 2hr Interview. After this was all completed I waited for a few weeks, nothing, a month and a prompt, still nothing, 3 months and no feedback, no email response at all. I thought they might have gone bust but are still advertising...