I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Emma (Frankfurt am Main) in Jun 2023
Interview
The hiring process consists of 3 parts. First interview was with the hiring manager, the second — with Recruiter, the third one lasted approx. 4 hours. The details of the 4 hours interview recruiter will send you after you go through the first and second. Everything was positive, everyone was nice. The one thing which I didn't like was a lot of brain teaser questions. It looked like a 4 hour real examination. I’m not sure that it’s ok. It was a real stressful situation. Why does it need to be like that? Because work in Emma is bad for mental health and they want to check if you are a person who can deal with such a stressful situation?)
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Questions: - how many mattresses were sold in Germany by Emma in 2022? - tell me about the big challenge (and further: what would I fix in it?. - which countries would I go to with Emma? (table with indicators) - What's my favorite company? (and further what I could improve). - why do I want to work at emma? - tell me about yourself (not on your resume, but in general) - you want to launch in a new country - how will you do it? - what three people will you hire if you want to launch in a new country? and what other people? and what tasks will they perform?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Emma (Portugal) in Aug 2023
Interview
Very bizarre interview process and worst interview I've had yet! I thought the questions were oddly chosen given the role I applied for. I got the interview by being given a referral from a current employee. Part 1: I received 2 tests via email. One was personality based and the 2nd one was math and verbal topics -- I think it was 50 questions to complete as many as you can in 12 min. This one felt like a mix of the SAT and GMAT. Part 2: Then I had my screening interview with 2 people from the team. They don't share who will interview you before the call and their emails are not included in the calendar invite.
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1. Introduce yourself, but don't summarize your CV. They want you to share the things you like to do outside of work and give an overview of who you. 2. Describe a person you've worked with who you didn't get along with and how you handled it. 3. Describe something from your CV that you're most proud of. 4. Calculate 4.75% of 440 without using a calculator or writing anything down and share outloud your process. 5. Pretend that the company wants to send a gift to our customers that has nothing to do with sleep, what would you send them and how would this benefit Emma? 6. A short time for 1-2 questions from you.
First of all, the employee who interviewed me was not a recruiter as she told me, but it was clear: she wasn't interested at all in getting to know me, since she didn't ask anything regarding my past working experience. She also wasn't taking notes, so during the interview I was wondering how she could remember all the information after our meeting.
Plus, she didn't speak an understandable English, so it was complicated to got what she was really asking to me.
Then, I felt like the interview was a real examination: no attempts of conversation, no proper answers, and in fact she was just asking some standardized questions (all of them were behavioral and case studies) that she could read on a sheet.
After that, she asked me if I had questions, and I replied asking her the exact location of the internship. She couldn't answer because they didn't provide her any information.
She didn't say a word on the salary as well and I had the feeling that she had to stop our interview precisely at 17.00, because I was still talking to her and she interrupted me rudely with a "OKAY OKAY OKAY HAVE A NICE DAY BYE BYE BYE".
But the WORST thing that happened was her talking bad about the company. I mean, she was clearly trying to discourage me saying that the Emma is facing a crisis in terms of turnover, because most of the people leaves the company after less than a month since the environment is really chaotic and dysfunctional.
They didn't offer me a follow up interview, I didn't receive any feedback, and I really don't understand why, because my profile was clearly 100% suitable with what they were looking for.
By the way, if I have to be honest, I'm glad that there won't be a second interview with them.
I just hope that they will really be able to implement all the strategy that I provided to the interviewer to enhance the workforce retention because if the interviews are always like that, they need to keep close their current employees.
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Tell me a little about yourself; Tell me what is a 'recruiting internship' in 1 phrase; Tell me about a project that you're really proud of; Were the people that you hired in the past all good?; What is the worst thing about you that can bother the other members of you team? How do you try not to make it come up? And the best thing?; Tell me about the strategy that you would implement to enhance employee retention