I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Crossover for Work
Interview
A Battery of Tests - 1) a Cognitive Aptitude Test, 2) a spoken English and written English test, 3) a weird Business Acumen test - that seems to focus mostly on accounting and finance, 4) a Watson Glaser Test (most often administered to law school entrants and graduates) and finally a "Real World Assessment" - that asked you to redesign a workflow and submit a link to a Google Doc. After spending 6 hours of my life on these tests and the service redesign - received a rejection with no feedback. But most importantly they didn't even review the service redesign document that I submitted (I know because I checked the viewing activity on the Google Doc!!!!). So bottom line completely useless waste of time - In my opinion, they are simply trying to collect real-world data for free so that they can fine-tune some generative AI to screen and grade applicants. DON'T BOTHER!!!!
4
Neutral experience
Easy interview
Application
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Crossover for Work (Toronto, ON) in Jun 2023
Interview
Crossover is known for being remote only even before the pandemic. So the process starts with a lot of computer graded evaluations before you can talk (virtually) to a human. First you have a basic fit test - in this case there were like 5 multiple choice questions asking about my background (such as do you have X years of experience doing Y?) Then you move on to the skills assessment. First one is an IQ like test - they call it cognitive aptitude. The secret is to be quick, you have 15 min to answer 50 questions. Depending on the position you will have different minimum points to achieve. It's hard to answer all 50 questions, I think I answered 48. I got 43 right (5 out of 6 stars), and passed. Then you have language tests, English speaking and writing. Then a simple business acumen test (multiple choice) and a strange critical thinking and reasoning test. If you pass all of that (each stage is eliminatory), you get a real work assessment. Only after that comes the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I didn't pass the real work assessment. They asked to redesign a business function (commercial product management). It was not hard to do. I thought a human would review the work, but some 20 min after submission I got an email saying I didn't pass and that my grade was 60%. It was too quick, so I imagine it was computer-graded. There was a workflow on the exercise, and I pasted an image of it to prevent formatting issues, and I wonder if the computer was able to read it....