Revolut·Software Engineer

Revolut Software Engineer interview experience

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IstanbulPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews were anchored around backend fundamentals that revolved a lot around concurrency, databases, and how transactions behave under pressure.

The flow began with an HR round that mixed in technical scenario questions instead of staying purely behavioral. I got asked about concurrency and isolation, and we also talked through database-related topics like locking behavior, with patterns such as CQRS and sharding/indexes coming up.

Then the process moved into technical interviewing where the emphasis became “production-ready” thinking rather than just writing code that passes. I remember being tested on writing correct concurrent logic and handling things like locks safely, plus the kind of edge cases that show up in real systems. In

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