I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Indeed
Interview
Recruiter reached out on LinkedIn, had a phone screening within one week and the spoke to the head of product. Interview questions were odd, did not focus on customer problem, jumped straight to solution. Interviewer was not friendly or collaborative. No follow up after.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If someone at Indeed suggest for you to implement X solution, how would you do it?
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Indeed in Jan 2021
Interview
For a company that prides itself for finding people jobs, they may need to look internally first - their hiring and interview process is a mess and a waste of time.
HR rescheduled screening without notifying me. On reschedule, recruiter was 15 minutes late - and then acted like I was inconveniencing them. It was like pulling teeth to get answers, did not know basic questions about the group or product.
Made it to the next round, 3 interviews. Again recruiter messed up scheduling and the hiring manager was 20 minutes late to a hour long interview. Hiring manager was solid and acknowledged they don't dogfood or have a good interviewing experience.
Next two interviews were no shows, later found out another scheduling issue. Decided to not continue the process, if you can call it that. Realized a company that provides itself on finding people job doesn't value their own candidates, probably is a crap company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you want to work at Indeed?
Walk me through your resume?
Why are you interested in the job?
I applied online. I interviewed at Indeed in Jan 2021
Interview
If you have 5+ years of big corp experience (even better if it's Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc.) you have a great chance. If not, don't hold your breath even if they are looking for "someone with entrepreneurial background".
It was the longest interview process in my life due the recruiting team being very disorganized.
I submitted my resume via Indeed website, got a call from the recruiter 1 month later.
Two weeks later I had my screening with the hiring manager. That went well and I was scheduled for a panel round with 4 PMs.
The panel round is 2 hours with you having to come up with a new feature MVP and then defend it. Be prepared to analyze a data table. That went well too and I was moved to the final round.
The final round was 1:1 with 6 of the senior members of the team.
Almost everyone interviewing me was very friendly and 100% male.
I did get a feeling as if my fate was decided from round one since I did not have enough of a corporate background and that fact was indirectly pointed out several times. But then they still moved me to the next rounds.
My last interview with the head of the department was very different from the rest. The interviewer seemed checked out and rather condescending which dampened my enthusiasm about the company big time. To my questions he gave me some very general almost irrelevant answers which only meant that my candidacy was no longer considered. That was confirmed 3 days later.
Overall, a very valuable experience that took 3 months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All interviews consisted of coming up with a new feature for the core product, setting up metrics, measuring success and analyzing data.