This company was fun to interview with and definitely invoked each interviewer's creative side. All went well and I was able to proceed through to the rest of the process. We were then given the opportunity to show our skills and give a tour of the museum. I did extra research and even revisited the museum to get my footing and then the rest was a breeze. The presentation day came and my natural abilities started to come out. I was telling stories, giving fun facts, showing extra pictures on my iPad slides and other people were coming up to listen. Well, I felt great and I knew I did great... but it didn't occur to me that it should have felt a little odd that only one person was evaluating my presentation. I was told all went well, I took my directions well and did an amazing job... well not two days after, I was terminated from moving forward by people who had not been present at my tour...this was odd. Then I started thinking about the dynamics, not only was I being evaluated by one person which leaves a big open room for subjective criticism...but there were seemingly no other people of color (within this company) leading tours in museums full of works done by people of color. I'm not sure exactly what happened...but it leaves room for my imagination to run wild as to why I was randomly terminated from moving forward with no substantial feedback... Especially after being told to my face that I did a fantastic job. This job is not rocket science, which makes all of this even more offensive... especially when having a degree relative to this.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Museum Hack (New York, NY) in Jun 2018
Interview
Fairly simple. I had two phone screenings, which were remarkably similar. They asked a lot of the same questions in each screening call, which I didn't really understand. They kept asking for names and contact information for former supervisors early in the process, and we didn't really dig into my skills and experiences. A number of times, they asked how my employers would rate me on a scale of 1-10, which is always an awkward question to answer. Who's going to give a poor rating?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would your former boss rate you on a scale of 1-10?
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Museum Hack in May 2018
Interview
Phone interviews. The same woman interviewed twice. There seems to be an emphasis on experience with former supervisors, which is difficult for those of us who are independent contractors working remotely, as we do not have supervisors. The process took about 20 to 30 minutes by phone reach time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What would your former supervisor say about your performance?