I initially had a conversation with Reddit’s Head of Design through an employee referral which went well and we struck a good connection. He told me I had a good portfolio and that I would proceed to a whiteboarding challenge with him and a Senior UX manager. Next I had a call with a technical recruiter which was very helpful to answer questions about immigration and other technicalities and to organise the next stages of the interview, up until this point the interview process was very quick and smooth. I spent a lot of time preparing for the next stage, the whiteboarding challenge, my thinking process appeared to have been overlooked as the interviewer seemed quite methodical showing little interest towards answering my assumptions and/or constraint proposals. I tried to engage them regularly but they seemed unengaged and were only looking for a very specific answer or direction. The whiteboarding challenge was 45 minutes in length with around 15 minutes at the end to ask questions, it wasn’t made clear if this was to ask questions about the challenge or Reddit itself. Overall the interviewing experience was good, I’d of perhaps liked more feedback on the whiteboarding challenge as this process is not communicated well to a prospective candidate and there doesn’t seem to be an opportunity for it to be collaborative and mutual stakeholder/client back and forth.

1st phone screen was directly with the head of design. Mostly a casual chat and some lecture about design at Reddit. 2nd interview was a whiteboarding exercise. I think I was denied because my final solution did not agree with the economic and political views of the company. I suggested that public goods should be free.