I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Urban Sports Club (Berlin) in Sept 2025
Interview
2 Rounds
- Round 1 Hiring Manager
- round 2 VP of Ops
- Offer
The interview with the hiring manager was positive and relaxed, focused mostly on getting to know each other. It went very well. During the conversation, I was told that although the role included some People Operations related tasks, they were specifically looking for someone without prior People Operations experience in order to bring a fresh perspective and strong analytical skills.
The second-round interview was also a pleasant experience. However, I was ultimately rejected because the selected candidate had People Operations experience.
This left me with the impression that the internal expectations for the role were not fully aligned throughout the process.
Had a conversation with a friendly recruiter to give an overview of the role and company, followed by a call with a hiring manager where we talked about the role in more depth and my experience.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Urban Sports Club (Barcelona) in Jul 2023
Interview
After the recruiter phone interview, there was one technical interview in which I worked on improving code from an existing Github repo to check algorithmic problem solving and how I'd approach a problem, then there was an "experience" interview with the hiring manager.
People were friendly and the technical interview was well designed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you detect an existing bug/bad practice in a piece of existing code?