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Revolut

Builds a financial app covering accounts, cards, currency exchange, trading and business banking across many countries.

Not known6 stage process documentedFounded 2015
Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Headcount

5,000 and up

5,000 or more people
Work model

Not known

Hiring

Not known

Not enough signal to say. Check the careers page directly.
Where to apply
Careers pageWebsite

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How they hire

These stages come from Revolut’s guide for Java backend engineers, published in March 2025. The rounds and their emphasis may differ for other stacks, levels and countries. Revolut’s backend stack includes Java 21, PostgreSQL through jOOQ, Redis, Kubernetes and Google Cloud.

  1. 1

    Interview with a recruiter

    Official
    Recruiter screen

    Your first conversation with Revolut, covering your experience, career goals and why you want to join. Revolut suggests keeping it concise and linking specific achievements to what the role needs.

  2. 2

    Live coding

    Official
    Live coding

    Solving problems in real time while explaining your approach. Clean, optimised code and a solid grasp of language fundamentals are what count.

    Data structuresSOLID principlesTestingMultithreading
  3. 3

    Technical interview

    Official
    Technical interview

    A deeper round that mixes conceptual questions with hands-on problems on concurrency, databases and system architecture, with an emphasis on applying what you know.

    ConcurrencyDatabasesArchitecture
  4. 4

    System design

    Official
    System design

    Designing a scalable distributed system while balancing performance, reliability and scalability. Revolut describes it as a joint discussion.

    ScalabilityDatabase performanceResilience
  5. 5

    Team fit

    Official
    Culture fit

    A final conversation about how you would fit into the team and the company: how you like to work, how you have handled conflict or uncertainty, and what interests you about the role.

  6. 6

    Offer

    Official
    Offer

    Revolut presents the offer as part of the final step, after team fit.

What comes up

Recurring themes from candidate accounts, not a question bank. Nobody is served by leaked question lists, least of all you in the interview.

  • Concurrency and thread safety

    Official

    Synchronisation, thread safety and parallel processing appear in both the live coding advice and the technical interview. Revolut suggests linking them to things you have built.

  • Databases at scale

    Official

    Indexing, query performance, transactions and issues specific to distributed systems.

  • Service architecture

    Official

    Microservices, domain-driven design and event-driven architecture, reflecting a stack that Revolut says uses Clean Architecture, DDD, TDD and CQRS.

  • Measurable impact in past work

    Official

    Revolut recommends structuring behavioural answers with STAR and putting numbers on results rather than using buzzwords.

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What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

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Universities they recruit from

No sourced university links yet. A campus drive, a career fair appearance or an internship partnership is what puts a university here.

Add to the Revolut page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

How to actually get seen

Practise solving problems against the clock on LeetCode or HackerRank, as Revolut itself suggests, and revise multithreading in both theory and practice. Prepare two or three past projects with measurable results that you can explain using STAR.

Sources

Whole profile last checked 2026-09-22.

Interviewed at Revolut? Fill in what changed.

Processes change, rounds get added, tests get replaced. If what you went through was different from what is on this page, tell me and I will update it.

Want me to refer you here?

Send me the role, your CV and a few honest paragraphs on why you fit it. Where I know someone inside and your profile matches, I will make the introduction. Where I cannot, I will tell you why and point you at the route that does work. You get an answer either way.

Ask for a referral to Revolut

A referral only means something if the person giving it can actually speak to your work. I will refer you where I know someone on the inside and your profile genuinely fits the role, and I will tell you plainly when I cannot. Either way you get an answer, and a straight one.

  • I read every request. A reply takes a few days, sometimes longer.
  • I will not refer someone for a role their profile does not fit. It wastes your time and costs me the contact.
  • Where I cannot refer you, I will say why, and point you at the way in that does work.
  • Nothing you send here is shared with anyone without you agreeing to it first.

If you found the opening, paste it. It tells me which team you mean.

A Drive, Dropbox or personal-site link is fine. Make sure it opens without a request for access, or I cannot read it.

At least a short paragraph. This is what I would be putting my name behind, so specifics beat adjectives.

Comma separated, up to six. Things you would be happy to be tested on.

Add to the Revolut page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

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