• Collaboration and communication: How you work together with us to solve the problem and communicate and rationalise your choices. We want to understand how you approach the problem and why you approach it this way, along with how you design your solution and incorporate feedback and suggestions into it
• Problem solving: How you approach a small problem within a set time, how think through the problem and arrive at ideas and solutions
• Code structure: How you write your code – why you make certain decisions over others, how you look at trade-offs when building your code.  We’ll also want to get an understanding of the clarity, testability and readability of your code.

What a Pair Programming interview is about:

• We will spend some time coding an exercise in Javascript to understand your familiarity with the language and modern patterns and how you code hands-on.

What a Pair Programming interviews is not about:

• Trivia questions, Riddles, trick questions or logic puzzles

You’ll receive an email from Wise containing the details of the interview: when it’ll happen, who’ll the two engineers be and how it’ll be conducted. 

It can be an onsite interview where you get the opportunity to visit one of our offices (depending on your location), or a video interview via Google Meet.

During the interview we’ll assess your familiarity and experience with the frontend technical landscape and if you can write code that’s correct, readable and well thought-through.  

It’s ok to not know some topics or if you forget specific syntax during the coding part, etc. We expect you to communicate and engage with your interviewers on both what you know and don’t know or remember - they are there to help you!

We’re mostly interested to learn how you think so please provide a narrative as you go through the code. 

This interview should not need any preparation, however you might want to brush up on the topics we mentioned above.

• During the coding part - It’s crucial to understand the problem you have to solve. If the question is unclear or has been left intentionally open – always feel free to ask clarifying questions. We want to understand your thought process so please explain what you are doing and why.
• Ask questions - the interview is an opportunity for you to learn more about us too, so we encourage you to have some questions for us at the end too
• Finally, your interviewer isn’t there to just assess you, they’re also there to help. Don’t hesitate to ask questions and keep the interview as a discussion.
• As previously mentioned we do not allow the use of AI to support you during this stage of our interview process.
  

Good luck!