RELX Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

Started through a recruiter. I was scheduled for a phone interview, but no one called. The recruiter then told me they forgot. We rescheduled, and the following week I was called. They asked me good Java questions and talked about my experience. If you study Java interview questions and have a good background, this step is easy. After a couple of days, I took an online programming test with two of their developers online. We shared the same editor, and there were two questions. If you're a real Java developer, this step is easy too; just practice writing small programs and know algorithms. The following week, I was scheduled for an on-site interview. The on-site interview took 3 hours: first group, I was asked another programming challenge. I wrote a small program from scratch, choosing between Eclipse or IntelliJ. But you need to set up the project yourself, using Maven or Ant. You need to include your unit tests and do TDD. Again, this step is easy if you have experience with those. Second group, we talked about my experience and they asked several Java questions. Third group, interview with QA. Maybe they had some problems: they questioned my interaction with QA at my previous companies. Then the 4th stage: interview with the main decision-maker. Some architectural questions on the whiteboard, questions about my previous projects. Then they told me they would call me the next week, Wednesday at the latest; but they didn't. Not even after that week, not even after that. I didn't bother because I had already received an offer from a better company. Although they sounded better on the phone, they were unprofessional handling interviews, forgetting an appointment, their office settings, and positively or negatively not sending a response.

HR reached out to me for an interview. First, I had to take a test covering basic Math, Logic, and English. If I passed that, there was an HR interview, and the HR person I spoke with was really nice. After passing the initial HR interview, I was moved to a technical interview, but unfortunately, I didn't pass that one and got a rejection email about a week later.

First, there's an online analytic skills test. If you pass that, you'll have an HR interview. If you do well there, they'll set up a manager interview to check your technical skills. The final step is a panel interview over Skype with stakeholders and IT where they'll ask about your experience and skills. They seem to really like developers with AWS cloud experience.