Enterprise Insights Associate Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
December 1, 2015
Negative ExperienceNo Offer
Process
Applied online. Shortly thereafter, had a pleasant, 30-minute phone screen with the hiring manager.
A few days later, was asked to do a "research exercise" for which they wanted a 4-5 slide response. This exercise was filled with ambiguities, numbers without dimensions, unclear goals, grammatical mistakes, etc.
Perhaps they thought they were making it "open-ended" or assessing the candidate's ability to research in ambiguous situations. I just thought it was sloppy, so much so that it raised concerns about the quality of the group's work product.
Performed the exercise as best I could under the circumstances. A few days later, received a rejection email.
Questions
4-question research exercise homework assignment
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* Personal time is respected. Email and Slack stop after 5 or 6 PM and don't restart until 9 AM, and are non-existent over the weekends.
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* Unlimited PTO is encouraged to a point (obviously taking a large percentage of time off will be noticed and denied).
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* $7,000 per year for remote expenses covers everything you'd normally get in a tech company: food, WeWork space, exercise equipment, etc.
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* Expanding into other markets to continue to grow the business.
* Strong working relationships across functions and divisions.
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