I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Tails.com (London, England) in Feb 2021
Interview
My overall interview experience with Tails.com... *takes deep breath* wow.
For a minimum paid job you would not think you would have to intake a 3.5 hour interview process. One of my questions was regarding if I were to be a CEO of my own company. Need I say anymore? It was far too intense for the job itself.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What would be your values if you were a CEO of your own company?
Thanks so much for sharing your interview experience for our Customer Experience role.
We take hiring talent for tails.com really seriously based on experience, skills and values. Unlike some other customer service roles, our team become experts in dog nutrition as well as everything tails.com. They also have strong empathy and communications skills as well as going the extra mile to give our customers (and their dogs) the best experience possible. With that in mind, we know our process is intensive but we think it’s the right thing to invest in.
We appreciate your time and wish you all the very best in your next venture.
Best wishes,
Henrik Malmquist
Head of People
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Tails.com in Oct 2020
Interview
From my initial phone interview to the Assessment Centre day, the whole process took over 4 weeks. I understand the desire to be thorough and pick the right people for the job, but I found for an average-pay customer service role, this was a bit ridiculous. At the time, I had multiple other interviews at different companies for 'higher' positions that took half the time. It seemed to me the issue was that they had way too many applicants they wanted to see for assessment days, so it would have been better to narrow down the amount of people instead of leaving us hanging for so long. I also had very little contact during this time and had to prompt at one point.
The assessment day was good, albeit a bit long (3.5hrs), which probably would have been fine in person, but difficult over Zoom. It could be cut shorter if the written portion was done before the assessment day.
Overall it seems like a lovely company to work for, but the interview process for a role like this was a bit excessive.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. We’re always looking at ways to improve our recruitment process and your feedback has been really helpful.
Thanks again,
Tim
The interview process involved the standard sort of customer service questions you expect. They go through your CV on the first phone interview so make sure to have that in front of you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
"when was a time when you turned an unhappy customer into a happy one"
also make sure to have you CV infront of you as they will ask you about it in phone interview.