Xebia·Software Engineer

Xebia Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

HilversumPosted Nov 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first conversation went really well—deep and detailed, and it felt like both sides were genuinely enthusiastic.

About a week later they sent an assignment, and I only had four days to do it instead of the longer turnaround they usually give.

The assignment ended up being more backend-focused, even though I was being considered for a frontend role. When they reviewed it, there was miscommunication about what perspective they were evaluating from, and I was rejected. When they finally realized they should look at it from a frontend perspective, they didn’t ask me to redo the assignment; they simply reassessed the same one through that lens and still felt it wasn’t sufficient.

It left me with the

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