The interview process
Interviewing from overseas is a bit of juggle. Luckily video conferencing is easy, and we used Google Hangouts to make things happen.
The 12-hour time difference means it’s always either early for one side and late for the other. This meant early starts for the PK guys, and later evenings for me to coincide.
I had an initial conversation with Patrick, PaperKite’s technical director and this led to me being invited to do a technical test. There are many different ways of testing developers, and I was pleased to find PaperKite’s approach was pretty hands-on. The test involved solving a real-world problem through coding an app, and submitting this for review with their development team.
After succeeding with the test, and discussing the way I worked and other questions with the iOS team, I moved on to the final stage: a chat with the main-man, the boss, the head-honcho… Nic.
I was nervous, but Nic has a relaxed and practical approach to work and business, and was awesome to talk with. He offered me the job — I accepted — and returned to my family to break the good news!