After sending my CV there was strange situation when HR was quiting the company and it was a month until I got the first HR interview. HR interview was normal, nothing special, just basic questions about my career and choosing this position. The HR manager was experiences and extremely polite. Second part was with two heads of engineering. We discussed my path, motivation and achievements. The interview was scheduled for 1.5 hours but after 1 hour I was asked to finish it and stop asking questions about the company. Besides that, the communication was awesome and I liked this conversation with professionals. During the next one week I got one email which told that Wolt sees that my experience is more relevant for the individual contributing role and told me to pass technical interview. I said that it’s ok and Wolt sent me the initial task: to develop a simple Flutter application with a few interesting points. Wolt gives 10 days for this task, I spent 2 days on it and sent it back. Modern Bloc architecture, Clean layers and tests were implemented. However, I did it with an old Flutter version and it was pretty critical for the interviewer and Wolt rejected my application. I asked them to check it again and updated the project after 2 hours after I had got the email from HR. Unfortunately, HR didn’t answer me. The whole process took 2.5 months and I didn’t liked the final steps. If company hiring for a high level position, the feedback might be more constructive. Rejecting candidates with huge experience by the home coding task with the old framework usage as the rejection reason is also not a good point. Warning other candidates about that.

I’ve never had such an awkward screening round with a recruiter (they reached out first). The questions were basic, nothing unusual, but their reactions were as if I had said something completely out of this world. When I asked why there were so many interview rounds, it felt like they took this personally, even though there is nothing wrong with wanting to understand the reasoning and process. In the end, I asked for feedback and only received a passive-aggressive email a week later, with nothing actionable. If someone at Wolt reads this: every company has its own standards and processes, and that is totally understandable. However, having a recruiter react oddly to answers while manually taking notes at the same time is a bit strange and not very professional. You are hiring for a role in the AI space and do not use transcripts or an AI note-taker.