Had a phone screening, then a interview with the hiring manager. A few technical questions in the second interview but pretty basic theoretical business knowledge. Third interview is all technical, excel/SQL and business case study.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Unity (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2019
Interview
I applied for the Senior Designer role at Unity Labs online, which is Unity's R&D and foresight department. A phone call with a recruiter was scheduled, which would have been followed by another interview with the head of HR and on site interviews at Unity's office in San Francisco (I did not make it to this stage).
Now, I know I am not particularly strong in interviews (I prefer talking about urgent design questions rather than about career - that's something I need to work on) and I might also be more in the junior to mid-career range. However, I come with quite a unique skillset with experience in product design, design research, design futures / speculative design and some XR development experience. I can confidently say that I am talented in bringing unique angles to complex challenges.
So this is more of a suggestion / idea for how to may identify / recruit design research talent: coding challenges are often part of the recruitment process for software engineers. I would have loved to do a similar challenge but as a design / design research challenge. A challenge that would be less about making pixel-perfect design, but more about how someone approaches complex, ambiguous, emerging problems and fields, analyses them, identifies trends, is able to communicate them and proposes solutions / suggestions / provocations. Just an idea :)
Overall, Unity has been a clear and fast communicator throughout the process.
I was contacted by the recruiter and asked for available dates and times. I was sent a link to enter that info. No response or confirmation from the recruiter and the dates passed. I've contacted the same recruiter a few more times to set up a day and time. All were missed, according to her, they either "got lost in emails, or didn't see it in her calendar". This occurred over a few months. I decided not to waste my time on a company that is incapable of setting up an interview.