Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto 3 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Cruise (San Francisco, CA) nel mese di set 2019
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Pretty normal design interview process. It was very similar process to Facebook if you've gone through that loop as well. I think they have a lot of ex-facebook designers and recruiters.
I was contacted by recruiter (who was awesome and helpful) and had a screen with the recruiter within a few days. Very simple recruiter screen: told me what the team was looking for, what the team's makeup was, and I discussed briefly about myself. Got feedback fairly quickly (1 day) and moved onto Round 1 (past works 45 minute video conference). Video conference you need to present 1-2 projects by screen sharing via google hangouts.
Recruiter helped a lot and sent a lot of information before the presentation. I was mislead a tad. Recruiter sent me an email saying "Don't spend more than 5 minutes to talk about the process. We can ask more about this if we need to dig deeper." This confused me since interaction design is all about the process. I asked a designer friend who said their team is changing their hiring to be similar (more results focused instead of process focused). So I took this to heart and mainly presented the final work and talking about why I made certain decisions. This was wrong. When I mentioned skipping the process to get to the final shipped product one of the reviewers muttered "well that's the most important part" under his breath. Since this was a keynote presentation it was hard to unskip it and show the nitty gritty process pieces. I think there might be a disconnect between what recruiter thinks they're looking for and what the design team is actually looking for. It's very possible the recruiter just sees what doesn't work (UX designers with too much process/weak visuals) so trust your gut.
I didn't make it past this step (feedback within a day) but it was very helpful in refining my presentation for future interviews. Feedback was an email & not a call which was fine.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Cruise (San Francisco, CA)
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Phone screen, hiring manager interview, then loop interview. The team’s great, filled with smart people and a responsive/courteous recruiter. Learned a lot from the process and it was a great experience.
1 round with recruiter, 2 rounds with product designers. First round with recruiter was pretty standard and the two other rounds were portfolio presentations. Process was relatively quick. Questions were nothing too crazy or different.
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Asked to present projects, and asked questions about the projects after.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto una settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Cruise (San Francisco, CA) nel mese di mar 2021
Colloquio
The main interview I did was with a design lead on their side, and a more mid level designer underneath her.
I did my portfolio presentation, then the first question she asks were if I designed the hardware for the product I had presented. I said no and explained my specific contribution, then she revealed she knew the guy who designed it. It really put me off that she was trying to trick me into taking credit for someones work.
I kinda got the vibe she already had someone she wanted to hire and had to just get through this interview with me, and was just looking for any excuse to not hire me. (I used the exact format and presentation for my Google interview the same day and got and offer later just fine)
The company seems to have a cool product which was why I was excited to try out there. And I was pretty much in the same exact field so it seemed like a good fit. But they really need to do a better job with their interview process / strategy if they want to hire good talent, it's a two way street, you need to convince talent that this is a good fit for them as well.
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Do you have any experience with consumer app design?