Wise·Software Engineer

Wise Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

London, EnglandPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started with a recruiter call where things sounded normal, and then I scheduled the next live pair programming step on their hiring platform.

My appointment got canceled a few days later, and when I waited, the recruiter only reached out two weeks after that to ask why I hadn’t attended. I told them it had been canceled from their side, and they rescheduled.

On the day of the pair programming interview, the question was a tic-tac-toe implementation in Python, which was at an easy-to-medium LeetCode level. I was ready to share my screen, but the interviewer didn’t want me to screen share and also mentioned not using AI tools. I remember feeling confused about how they could enforce that without seeing my screen. After I completed

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