Ghosted by Monzo hiring team during take home task
Just a word of caution on applying for roles at Monzo.
I applied for a Lead Analytics Engineer role and a recruiter got in touch. We had a nice chat and I was put through to the first round, an hour with a senior AE where we did a deep dive on a project I worked on. It was intense but I enjoyed it!
The next day I received an email informing me that I was successful and inviting me to complete a a take-home task; a straightforward data-modelling exercise in Google BigQuery. I clicked the link and found that I couldn't access the sample datasets, so I emailed the recruiter back immediately showing the error message I received.
That was two weeks ago. Since then I've followed up three times, and also emailed the general hiring@monzo.com address - no response!
I have to say I'm pretty disgusted by this - I've been in the hiring manager position myself many times throughout my career and I would be horrified if we treated a candidate in this way, especially if we had been giving all the signals that the process is going well.
Also makes me wonder what would have happened if I did complete the task - would they have just ignored the submission?
Definitely recommend proceeding with caution with this company!