Transport for London Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

London, EnglandPosted Apr 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a phone interview, and after that I was given a coding challenge to design an API.

I was initially told I didn’t make it past that coding step, but then they asked me to resend the code because they couldn’t open what I’d sent originally. Once that was resolved, I moved forward to a face-to-face interview.

The in-person interview felt fairly straightforward and the interviewers were friendly. I was asked technical questions connected to TDD, and I also had to explain a complex system I’d worked on, walking through how it worked and the thinking behind it.

The frustrating part was the follow-up. It took around a couple of weeks to hear back, and when I requested feedback

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