I received an email at 8pm on a Sunday night that they needed my availability for the next week and was told their would be four interviews over the next week with two hour long interviews back to back on each day. Immediate red flag but I obliged and prepared two presentations, showed up prepared, and received positive feedback from the interviewers. I was also told that classes would be starting within a few days so they needed to move fast. I sent one follow up email within a week and got the sense that they would not be hiring for this role. After that initial contact, I never heard from them again. Asking someone to prepare lengthy presentations within days notice and not having the decency to send even a generic email says a lot. There is another review here that tells a similar story. If they ask you to do this, please don't. They are resume farming at best and just ticking boxes to say they interviewed candidates. The salary was also alarmingly low for the workload and would have to be treated as a contract or part time role to even be feasible in the DC Metro area. Just an all around unfortunate experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Needed to prepare a sample lesson and job talk within less that 72 hours
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at City Teaching Alliance (Dallas, TX) in Aug 2020
Interview
Video based interview. Submission of huge project. Interview via Zoom. Got to final interview and they did not even contact me to tell me the job had been given to someone else. This position was being hired for very last minute with immediate, huge demands. I had to call HR weeks later and inquire. It doesn't appear they hired anyone as their website never showed a new faculty member. To require such an extensive interview process, including course content creation, and not follow up with even an email is a red flag for the culture of the organization.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mostly about my teaching philosophy and practices I use. A lot of case study questions.
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at City Teaching Alliance in Apr 2019
Interview
Applied online and was contacted a couple of weeks later via email for a HireVue interview which asked about 3-5 questions. Received another email shortly after requesting a content knowledge assessment via Powerpoint (very time consuming). Shortly after, received a request for a panel interview via Skype format. The interview was about 30 minutes, not typical interview questions but not too hard. The panel interview via Skype was weird, I'd rather in person.
I wish that the content assessment came after the interview because I was more so agitated about the time it took to complete and to not hear back after the interview was very rude and unprofessional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you ensure cultural pedagogy within your instruction