My interview was rescheduled at the last minute. I was told I would receive feedback from the interviewer on another day, but despite following up, I never received a response.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Wise
Interview
It felt very disorganises. I had two separate interviews with two different people at the same level (Localization Manager) asking the same questions for an hour. I suspect this was because the hiring manager was on holiday the first time around. This felt like they were stringing me along unecessarily and a waste of everyone's time. I had a screening call with their recruiter, a written task, two separate 1-hour long interviews with two different Localization Managers, one of which was the one hiring for her team, and a final interview with their Localization Lead Claire Pages, which felt very unpleasant. This was 45 minutes long and probably one of the worst interview experiences I've ever had. Her tone and manner of speaking were arrogant and patronising and and her line of questioning felt more like an interrogation and bordering on discriminatory questions like asking me things like the age of my child and whether she goes to nursery, and questioning why I had to postpone the final interview (I had already informed the recruiter that I had an urgent surgery). She also made snidy remarks about me not working at one place for very long. Also at first I was told I am required to come in two days a week and suddenly at the final stage this was changed to 3 days. After this lengthy process I didn't hear back for two weeks and had to inquire for an update but was only told someone else got the role with more relevant experience with no proper feedback despite all the time I invested in a task and interviews. I guess they could have judged this from my CV? All in all very unprofessional and a huge waste of time. Having said that, I probably wouldn't have wanted to work with someone like that anyways.
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Question 1
Talk us through your experience with Localization. What CAT tools have you worked with in the past?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Wise in Feb 2025
Interview
I did not apply for CRM manager. I applied for Senior CRM manager, but they invited me for an interview for the lower-level role. It was not raised by the recruiter until I raised it and the response was "Yeah, we will see who qualifies for the senior role during interviews".
This is so disrespectful coming from an established company.