The whole process was incredibly drawn out. I think I had four interviews in total and notes clearly weren’t shared between interviewers so there was a lot of repeating myself and I unsure if their questions were based on knowledge of my prior interviews etc. I also had to do one interview at the crack of dawn because of the interviewers was based overseas (and this person wasn’t remotely important for me role - once I started I had nothing to do with them). For my last round they insisted it needed to be that week and then they texted 30 minutes before to reschedule.
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Questions on values - wanted tons of examples. Felt like I was repeating myself a lot. I also had to prepare two case study presentations which took an enormous amount of time. Something I would be unlikely to agree to do again as I don’t agree with companies “assessing” candidates by asking them to do work for free or get their ideas - there’s other ways you can assess competency without such a drain on the interviewee.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Pollination Group (London, England)
Interview
Four rounds - first was an informal chat with an executive director, second round was with an MD and was a general chat about my experience and my market insights, third round was a technical interview where I had 24 hours to answer a case study question and had to present the results, fourth round was with the CEO and another member of senior management and was more of an informal chat about the market etc
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Market trends around decarbonisation, and carbon markets
3-stage interview process (general, values-based and technical). Exposure to ~5 employees + HR during the process, so there's a good opportunity to get a broad picture of the organization. The process took a couple of months.
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Why do you want to work at Pollination?
How do your career aspirations match the mission of Pollination