I applied online. I interviewed at Tinkoff Credit Systems Bank
Interview
It went well, the questions were not so hard, nothing out of hand, each interviewer gave a task to tackle with, both for tech and soft skills. Interviewers tried to embrace all iOS development fields: patterns, multithreading, UI, Autolayout, Core Data, etc.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Tinkoff Credit Systems Bank (Sankt Petersburg, )
Interview
I was given a couple of coding questions during the Skype conference call. My screen was shared and there were 4 or 5 employees. I had to write a compilable piece of code (that means, I had to remember the exact names of the functions) in 2 hours.
I'm not into interviews like that, but my interviewers seemed to forget that the interview is a double-sided road. I was told I'm not allowed to ask ANY questions at all because "it was them who interviewed me and not the other way round" (this was a huge red flag for me).
I guess I shoud've finished the call after 10 minutes when the interviewers started being pretty rude to me.
I should note the HR-manager who guided me through the process was a very nice person and they felt bad it didn't work.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given a sequence of numbers count the number of sign changes
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Tinkoff Credit Systems Bank (Moskau, ) in Sep 2017
Interview
About 2-3 technical interviews combined with motivation interview. First interview is group one. You have to answer general logic and math questions. Second (third) interview is individual. Specialists from an applying department ask questions about your qualification, skills, university.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
General motivation, why do you want to work for Tinkoff?
Simple math and logic test, for example:
You have 2 glass balls and you stay in front of 100-floor building. Provide an algorithm which in minimal amount of steps (throwings) determines a minimal floor from witch ball is broken if thrown to the ground.