The interview process was not good. I decided to add this review so if you have a poor experience, you know it wasn't because of you. The first two rounds (Recruiter screen and Hiring Manager interview) were great. But for the third round I met with a member of the broader team. My interviewer seemed unprepared, and the format of the interview was completely different from what the recruiter told me it would be. It was hard to track the throughline with a lot of their lines of questions (even when I asked clarifying questions), and the thought exercises we did were not very well planned out and often meandering. I honestly felt like the interview was set up for failure from the start.
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Questions from the recruiter screen and hiring manager interview were pretty standard - What interests you in the role? Tell me about a time you launched a product with a tight timeline? Etc.
Questions from the third round honestly wouldn't make sense posted here outside of the context of the interview
I applied online. I interviewed at Hopper in Oct 2020
Interview
Applied online 3rd week of September 2020. The Head of Product reached out a month later and we connected over a video call. I thought it went well and was told on the call that she will send me a case to work on but I didn't hear back. No assessment was sent and there was no response to followup emails.
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Question 1
Usual questions:
1. Tell me about yourself
2. Why interested in the role
3. How I worked with data science team among others
had a conversation with the hiring manager that followed a structured, standard interview format. The questions were well thought out, directly aligned with the role, mainly to assess my experience, problem-solving skills, and approach to collaboration.
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What's your biggest achievement, and the metrics about it?
screening call, interview with hiring manager, then with a product team member. pretty standard questions, but had to complete a very detailed and involved excercise. they said that i would be compensated $100 for the excercise on the hopper app, but I was not. felt a little tricked and farmed for ideas
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
there were several questions in a case study that i had to create a written document for and submit. due to privacy, i can't reveal the exact questions