I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Aberdeen in Jul 2024
Interview
After a screening call, a tech interview with a consultant company and a tech interview with two archtictects at abrdn, I was told the feedback is positive but I have to wait for the manager who's returning from their holidays in a week.
A week passes, no feedback. One more week passes, I contact the recruiter and they apologize on behalf of the manager, telling me they'll be back with feedback as soon as possible.
That was almost two months ago, complete radio silence.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General questions about architecture, system design
I applied online. I interviewed at Aberdeen in Jan 2026
Interview
Recruiter chat great, hiring manager chat great, but the technical interview round was really weird. The interviewers hyper focused on random aspects of my last role rather than gaging my full experience and skillset, it felt doing trivia/remember exact implementation of tiny feature from years ago. It just felt like they only want engineers with the exact tech stack experience as them/gatekeeping.