[deeptote]

Given Monzo's hiring practices, I'm not sanguine about the future of this company.

I myself went through their interview process not long ago and to say it lived up to the sentiment of the glassdoor reviews is putting it mildly. Several rounds, silly armchair-psychologist behavioral questions, and the interviewers made it blatant that they didn't want to be there. Did my last interview at 4pm one day, got rejected by 8am next business day. I've gotten offers from Google, Amazon, etc so I know I interview well, not sure what happened there but really got the vibe that their employees are never quite sure if they're doing well, and management likes it that way.

They're a bank struggling to market themselves as a tech company.

[chrisseaton]

I’d you have offers from Google and Amazon then why are you interviewing at a place like Monzo? They can probably tell you’re both wasting your time so rejected you on that.

[deeptote]

I turned down my offers from Google at Amazon because I value WLB and being able to continue with my freelance work and content creation. I figured working at a bank would be congruent with this sentiment.

You do cool work, btw. Just be careful, Shopify seems to be real layoff happy. I've even had some of your staff engineers hmu on Linkedin for a position and I've been having to say thanks but no thanks.

[sonthonax]

Because Monzo will pay more than Google or Amazon in the UK.

[shrikant]

This hasn't been the case in my experience interviewing at all of those three -- both Google and Amazon's comp for a similar role and level at Monzo were way higher.

Edit: to clarify, I didn't actually end up interviewing at Monzo because the recruiter said no pretty much right away on hearing my salary ask.

[chrisseaton]

I didn't think anyone paid more than Google?

[nly]

Facebook pay better than Google in London from what I've heard.

[sethjr5rtfgh]

So let me ask you. Is the only reason that you're at Shopify that you couldn't get an offer from Google or Amazon?

[chrisseaton]

I did apply to Google before and didn't get an offer so yes I guess that is literally true.