Adyen

Adyen states the loop "takes a little over a month" on average. End-to-end, that places one Adyen application across most of a recruiting season, with the closing round held by a board-level interviewer rather than the hiring manager – committed time, not parallel time.

Adyen runs three distinct early career programs, each shaped for a different stage of study:

• NextGen: a part-time role for students in the final phase of their degree, at least 16 hours a week alongside studies, designed to convert to a full-time hire on graduation.
• Internship: a masters-level placement built around the student's thesis, on research questions set by Adyen's tech teams.
• Graduate: full-time roles for recent graduates with up to two years of experience.

A candidate at the wrong point in their degree cannot cross between these – a first- or second-year student cannot apply for the thesis internship, an already-graduated candidate cannot apply for NextGen. The realistic Adyen route narrows to one per applicant, set by where they sit in their studies.

Hiring is judged explicitly against the eight principles of the Adyen Formula, which surfaces as its own stage in the interview loop. A candidate who runs Adyen as one of a generic broad-cast set of applications will lose ground at the Formula stage to one who has actually engaged with the rubric – this is a firm to prioritise or skip, not to roll into a parallel sweep.