First round was a brief phone call with HR. Then second interview was in-person with the manager.
The manager I interviewed with was not very nice, would interrupt me in the middle of my sentence, was not approachable. They did not even get back to me for three weeks until I basically begged HR to hear back. I found out through my status on "JobVite".
They finally replied days later saying they found someone else. I asked for any feedback, they did not respond. That was it. Very unprofessional.
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Question 1
Who are our competitors and how do you think we can overcome them? (ps: as interns, this is a little ambitious of a question to ask.. interns are there to learn from scratch)
We’re sorry to hear that your interview experience wasn’t great – we very much appreciate the feedback and will be sure to continue to look at our processes, including hiring manager training, to find ways to improve going forward.
There was a technical portion and a behavioural portion to the interview. The technical part was based around javascript. Overall, it was doable, and the people in the interview were all very nice
The interview process was pretty straightforward. After applying I was met with a phone call, and immediately got an email stating to set a second interview and then a video call with the hiring manager.
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Question 1
Tell me about yourself and why you chose to apply for the company
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Rakuten Kobo (Toronto, ON) in Jan 2018
Interview
Was called in for an interview, thought it went fairly well. The two interviewers were engaging and friendly and asked interesting questions. I was never contacted afterwards - pretty unprofessional.
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What kind of content do you interact with on a daily basis?
Thank you for your interest in Kobo! Our standard process is to inform all candidates who did not make it past the interview stage via email. It appears we experienced a glitch in our system. We have looked into the situation and have corrected it for future candidates. We hope you will apply for future positions here at Kobo!
