TOPdesk Interview Questions in Budapest

Application

I applied in-person. The process took 4+ weeks. I interviewed at TOPdesk (Budapest (Hungary)).

Interview

First I had a homework. After that without question they arranged a timeslot for me in the middle of the day. I told them the timeslot is not suitable for me and asked to have it from 8.00 any days. They said that it cannot be done beacuse they work from 9.00... after some weeks they invited me for 8.00 and after the
whole 2 hours interview told me that they wanted a fullstack developer... I was very very disappointed !

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Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4+ weeks. I interviewed at TOPdesk (Budapest (Hungary)).

Interview

pre interview coding task (only core Java required) , 2 rounds of problem solving and chatting. 1 more round for the offer. once the initial coding task was accepted it went pretty quickly.

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Application

I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4+ weeks. I interviewed at TOPdesk (Budapest (Hungary)) in September 2016.

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Scheduled a Skype interview, however no one called me for more than 40 minutes.
After I wrote an e-mail - I got a response saying of some "technical issue" and a proposition to re-schedule.
Next day got a letter saying someone has already been hired for that position.

Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at TOPdesk (Budapest (Hungary)) in February 2015.

Interview

After the first interview with the recruiter I got a coding problem.
There was two face to face interview, I got coding problems on both of them.
The main focus was on clean coding and previous experience, but they are watching your personal (human) values too.

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Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2+ weeks. I interviewed at TOPdesk (Budapest (Hungary)) in August 2016.

Interview

The process was highly standardized, pleasant and professional. Before the first interview, I was asked to share some pet projects and solve a homework assignment, that took me around four hours (it was a basic combinatorial game theory exercise in plain java, with textual input). Got a positive response a couple of days later, and got invited to the first round of interview.
The first interview was mostly an HR interview with a senior developer and an HR person. It started with an introduction of the company and the product, followed by personal questions about my goals, preferences and history. There was also a small brainteaser that I had to solve in Eclipse.
The second round was technical, with two senior developers. During the first short challenge I had to implement the service functionality for a UI component. Got some feedback on my coding style, and went on to the second exercise: a code review of a smaller project. It was both a communication exercise and a test for clean code principles and design patterns.
The hole process was in English, from the homework exercise to the job offer.

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Application

I applied online. The process took a week. I interviewed at TOPdesk (Budapest (Hungary)) in August 2019.

Interview

I applied for the position, I got contacted the very next day via e-mail and got some "homework" with questions that you would usually get asked at an interview e.g. Why do you want to be a tester? What is the purpose of testing? etc.
I sent them my answers and received an invitation the next day.
The interview was held by an HR-representative and a SCRUM Master. I was given a short presentation of the company and its products after which I had to present myself. They asked me hundreds of questions starting with When and where were you born? etc. (which were actually highly irrelevant) and I don't think I have ever had such a thorough interview. There was also a not too complicated test at the end. The whole interview took about 1,5 hours.
About 3 hours later I received a rejection mail with surprisingly concrete and detailed rejection reasons I was interested in automated testing and the interviewers could not guarantee that I would find the right challenges for myself. And they thought that I'm not good with people/cannot communicate effectively.
So the position wasn't quite what I was looking for and I wasn't the right type of person for the job.

I have to give a big thumbs up for speed and efficiency, but the company (culture) is not really the best choice for introverts/ people who are rather quiet as they are not welcome.

There were habits/traditions that I would consider rather unprofessional and a bit shocking. (I won't go into details)

So all in all I have mixed feelings about the company, but I don't think I will apply for another position any time soon.

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Application

I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2+ weeks. I interviewed at TOPdesk (Budapest (Hungary)) in July 2018.

Interview

I'm not sure about the order of these:

* They sent an algorithm challenge I could work in my own time. They sent Java class with method skeleton and unit tests. They judge this on both correctness and style of the solution.
* They invited me to solve a similar challenge in the office. Also, discussion about experience, personality, etc.
* They invited me to discuss the design and style of a piece of (working) code -- that they also sent in advance, so there was prep time. Another talk about personality match.

Overall it was a VERY positive experience. However, if you seem not to be a cultural fit, they reserve the right to stop the process. So your experience may differ...

I got an offer but chose a different one and I regret it now :-(

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Application

I applied online. I interviewed at TOPdesk (Budapest (Hungary)) in September 2019.

Interview

There was a very long interview, with a lot of irrelevant questions. (One person from HR and one scrum master. ) At first, there is a completely unnecessary presentation about the company, with information that you can find on the website and on the company's facebook page anyway. Then there were a lot of questions about my previous studies, workplaces and my private life. There were also some logical exercises at the end. The conversation was very friendly, but that was very misleading...
There were questions about what I studied 15-20 years ago (!) and why. They were a bit too nosy about my private life.
As a woman over 35 in Hungary, I've been discriminated against several times before. This was also a just waste of time.

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