The hiring process at Karta (UK) takes an average of 48 days when considering 3 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for QA Tester had the quickest hiring process (on average 35 days), whereas Quality Assurance Tester roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 60 days).
Very lengthy process with several stages, they required as to actually playtest a build and write a detailed bug report. I was desperate for work but seemed to take advantage of this
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Karta (UK) (London, England) in Jan 2024
Interview
My interview process with Karta was unorganised, messy and exhausting.
There was far too many stages for a basic QA position. Ignore the fact that there were far less requirements on the job description than my previous QA positions where I had but one interview and got the job every time.
Karta does not know what they want, the first stage was a standard screening interview with the hiring Co-ordinator who rescheduled interviews/phone calls whenever they pleased without asking so I had to reschedule 2 appointments due to conflicting interviews already.
I knew one other person in the interview process so we were able to compare our experiences which were wildly different. The first main interview we both had with different people and seemingly no notes were taken during either of these interviews so how could they compare afterwards?
Then followed a 'Technical Task', This was fine but definitely way too much for a standard QA position. We were tasked with setting up how we would run and manage a QA team along with going through one of their Roblox games. Me being eager set up an entire bug tracking project and logged a ton of bugs in the game which was already live when to be honest I would have sent back to the developers and asked them to start again. Anyway, I did this task and used my previous experience in QA to explain what I would do going forwards.
Then came another Interview, I had a different interviewer again to the other person in the process. The task was never mentioned, any work I had done previously completely ignored. I would love to have heard what they liked or didn't like about the project or at least discuss what I could do to improve and implement it further into their process. Apparently it was entirely insignificant though as it seemingly no longer existed, they probably just logged the bugs internally and moved on.
The final interview itself seemed to go really well even though the interviewer was clearly reading something else on his laptop the entire interview and clearly had better places to be.
All in all, nobody listened to anything being said, I imagine there was no communication within the company between interviews and ultimately they didn't know what they were actually after.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Karta (UK)
Interview
Very long process almost two months, massive task that expected too much of your time. Three interviews with different people so no consistency, no idea how they remained accurate and constantly changing meeting times. It shouldn't be such a long process it needs streamlining and a more professional approach to time management.