Quick Release Interview Questions
& Process

This was a bit of a waste of time, honestly. They required a lot of work upfront from a huge number of candidates. First, there was a CV screening. Then, an online assessment on Test Gorilla that took me about 1.5 hours, covering communication (situations, emails), numerical reasoning (sequences, graphs, ratios, percentages), working with data (graphs, statements), and problem-solving (schedules, sequences). After that, a pre-recorded interview where questions appeared on screen. You could take as much time as you needed to prepare, had 3 takes for each 1-minute answer, and questions included introductions, interest in the company, customer-facing experience, handling a rude senior engineer, self-taught skills, and personal interests. Next was an online assessment involving individual presentations on any topic and a team exercise to decide on an Olympics budget. There was also a technical exercise that was very hard, involving Excel with car parts, errors, their effects, and supplier correspondence, requiring you to fill out a template with comments. The HR people were nice, but the folks in the breakout rooms for the group exercise seemed disengaged. They promised individual feedback but sent a generic rejection email and didn't respond to requests for specifics. They also advertised the job as being in London, but it turned out to be mainly in random offices around the UK, which was very misleading.

The hiring journey was pretty straightforward: first, submit your CV, then do a quick data test. After that, there was a recorded interview, followed by an assessment centre and then a final interview. I must say, the recruitment team was great throughout the whole process. The tests mainly involved using basic Excel to interpret some provided information. However, the challenge at the assessment centre was a bit abstract if you weren't already familiar with production-grade engineering management processes, like managing car manufacturing.

The interview structure was decent, with a PDF detailing the role. However, the execution by the team was poor. Scheduled time slots were not respected, with frequent changes and no-shows. The interviews were conducted by team members, not HR, which might explain the disorganized process and added pressure on employees. After the first round and an online assessment (which was easy but time-consuming), they went silent again. Eventually, a rejection arrived with vague and inconsistent reasons. The overall experience suggests a lack of professional hiring practices and a reasonable timeline, leading to wasted candidate time.

So the interview process had five steps. It started with a CV screening, then an excel data exercise, followed by an online video interview. After that was the assessment centre, which took about 6 hours. The final step was a final interview. I did the assessment centre on Wednesday, and two days later, they let me know I wasn't successful.