Lavoro a tempo pieno presso Studyportals (Più di 3 anni)
Vantaggi
If you are straight out of college and it’s your first job, this place is worth a year or so of your life so you know what kind of companies to avoid in the future.
Svantaggi
If you know your shtik, that’s the place to avoid as your opinion won’t matter and on top of this you’ll be payed a mediocre salary that they call a competitive one.
Consigli per i dirigenti
There’s no management to start with as it’s a one man show. If your nature is to please the boss, you’ll be fine. If you got used to a corporate culture with define roles and opinions that are taken into consideration, that’s absolutely not a place to consider. If you are looking for a place to learn from, the only thing you’ll get out of this experience is how not to treat people who are working for you and how to trick investors to think that you’re a company worth investing into.
Utile (7)
Candidatura
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Studyportals a ottobre 2017.
Colloquio
Phone screen. Requested VoIP call, interviewer tried to reach me on my cell anyway. Interviewer was agitated when we finally got the call going.
Interviewer expected me to have done research about the company, while I expected the interviewer to introduce the company.
Interviewer was concerned about wasting their time (which they explicitly told me -- funny, since there was zero concern for my time).
Interviewer offered to reschedule the call, so I could research the company on my own. I asked for salary range, was told 24k-48k/year and we agreed not to pursue the matter further.
Some gems:
#1
Me: It's important that I can focus, are your offices open space?
Interviewer: Everyone is in the same room.
Me: Even sales?
Interviewer: Yes. You'll have to deal with it.
#2
Me: You are using Javascript at the front-end? Any frameworks?
Interviewer: We are using Node.js on the front-end.
Me: That doesn't seem right.
Interviewer: We are using Node.js on the front-end.
Then some of the usual HR memes that I'd expect have died out already, but apparently didn't like: "talk about your strengths and weaknesses", "we only want people who are enthusiastic about working here" (excited apparently means willing to work for minimum wage).
Conclusion - avoid if you have any other options at all. If they treat you like dirt even before you work there, how are they going to treat you when you do?
Domande poste durante i colloqui
