I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Wolt
Interview
The whole interview's tone of voice was pretty unpleasant and I regret that I've closed my eyes to all red flags present and invested my time into it. Definitely not doing any assignments for a company for free after this. Thanks, lessons learned.
I've been to 3 interviews with Wolt. The first one was a quite general overview of the company and position. On the second one, I met two developers who were actually not qualified to interview for this position as they were working with different stack and close to zero idea on what to ask and how things are overall going in the field. One of them was keeping silent for 1.30h without even saying 'hi' and 'bye' and another one was struggling to formulate the questions. I communicated to the HR that it's not a position I'm interested in and was suggested to try for another role, which is fine, but I wasn't given an opportunity to meet the team and decide if I want to continue and was directed right away to the assignment stage. Well, fine. Overall. the task is pretty broad. even though it looks simple in the beginning. Since the scope isn't specified, it's completely unclear what exactly is expected and what they would like you to focus on. Even though I've invested quite a bit of time into documentation of this project, I still got a feedback that the project isn't documented enough. Being 7 years in the industry I haven't seen anything documented on a more thorough level. Speaking of feedback, after sending the assignment I haven't received a single message from the HR and had to bug them for quite a while to receive the feedback that was actually promised. I guess if you aren't persistent enough they just ghost you and that's it, which is poor hiring ethics in my opinion. The received feedback is super vague and doesn't feel personal at all btw.
TL:DR: don't recommend. recruitment is unprofessional. assignment is rather big, the promised feedback for it is vague and will leave you with a bad taste in your mouth.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interviewer wasn't able to formulate the questions correctly and didn't know some pretty basic terminology from the field, which I had to explain to them for quite a bit (it wasn't intentional from their end or an interview technique)
I had two interviews with Wolt, one with HR and another with the hiring manager. After that, I was completely ghosted, without even a simple rejection email. It’s disappointing and unprofessional, especially after investing time in the interview process. Because of this experience, I will never apply for a position at Wolt again in the future.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Wolt (Helsinki, Südfinnland) in Nov 2025
Interview
1. Recruiter
2. Manager (Team culture round)
3. Home assignment
A recorded interview with the recruiter, which I wasn't informed earlier and I've never seen recruiter recording a video of initial screening. HM round was easy and it was more of a chat which was good. The next round was home assignment and the feedback was utterly useless. My code and tests did the very thing they said was missing, which was seriously confusing. I was told we would have a discussion with the team after I submit my code and that round will also consists of system design. Once again in last 2 years Wolt has shown their interview process is broken and won't improve. And this role had on-call rotation, which was not clearly mentioned in initial screening by recruiter. Overall, just poor experience and I would recommend staying away from them because they try to waste candidate's time with utterly useless feedback and don't tell what one should do to improve. Save your time people :)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Past & current projects, strengths & weakness . Do you use AI tools, and how do use it.
I applied online. I interviewed at Wolt in Sep 2025
Interview
Two interviewers. One with the camera off. An hour and a half of questions about the most challenging project. I'll say it again: an hour and a half! Not 45 minutes, but 90! Oh well. I shared a true story about how I launched a project for a serious company from the very beginning, from the very beginning, all the way to production. I was lucky to be involved, and I told them about it. The result: rejection. Who are they looking for?! An engineering director for a programmer role? Good luck.